Keeping the faith
DONATIONS
Renee Larson says
donations can be made to
the following organizations
to help Haiti:
ELCA Disaster Response
ELCA Disaster Response
39330 Treasury Center
Chicago, Ill. 60694-9300
■ For monetary
donations, write checks to
ELCA Disaster Response
with “Haiti Earthquake
Relief” in the memo line, or
visit the website for an
online donation or more
information:
www.elca.org/Our-FaithIn-Action/Responding-to-theWorld/DisasterResponse.aspx
ELCA Disaster Response
also sends health kits to
Haiti, which are still needed
more than ever. Visit the
website to find out more
about packaging health kits
and getting them to the
people in need.
Heart River Lutheran
Church — Haiti Project
Heart River Lutheran
Church
Attn: Haiti Project
701 16th Ave S.W.
Mandan, N.D. 58554

TOM STROMME/Tribune

Renee Larson is a survivor of the Haitian earthquake in which her husband was
killed.

Pastor rebuilding
life after losing
husband in quake
By DANIELLE REBEL
Bismarck Tribune
Just as Haiti has been rebuilding from the
devastation of last year’s earthquake, the Rev.
Renee Splichal Larson has been rebuilding
her life in Mandan.
Haiti still faces problems due to the Jan. 12,
2010 earthquake that shook the country,
resulting in the deaths of more than 250,000.

U.S. says
use less
fluoride
May be causing
splotchy teeth
By MIKE STOBBE
AP Medical Writer
ATLANTA — In a remarkable turnabout, federal health
officials say many Americans
are now getting too much fluoride because of its presence
not just in drinking water but
in toothpaste, mouthwash
and other products, and it’s
causing splotches on children’s teeth and perhaps
more serious problems.
The U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services
announced plans Friday to
Continued on 7A

On the anniversary of the tragedy, Larson
remembers the losses that Haitians faced —
and the loss of her husband.
Ben Larson, 25, was killed when the building he, Renee Larson and his cousin,
Jonathan Larson, were staying in collapsed.
While Renee and Jonathan managed to
escape, Ben was trapped. Still, he was heard
singing, “O Lamb of God you bear the sin of
all the world away; eternal peace with God
you made, God’s peace to us we pray.”
Ben’s immense outpouring of faith in time
of such fear has helped Larson through her
grief.
She and Ben were planning on ministering
together, and she was uncertain whether or
Continued on 7A

Legislators may
get more money
for housing
By DALE WETZEL
Associated Press

■ For monetary
donations, write checks to
Heart River Lutheran Church
with “Haiti Project” in the
memo line, or visit this
website for more
information:
www.heartriverlutheran.org
Money raised will go
toward the development of a
“Global Village” through
Lutheran World Federation in
Haiti.
Hearts With Haiti
Hearts with Haiti
11503 Springfield Pike
Cincinnati, Ohio 45246
■ For monetary
donations, write checks to
Hearts with Haiti with
“Rebuilding of St. Joseph’s”
in the memo line, or visit
this website for an online
donation or more
information:
http://heartswithhaiti.org
Continued on 7A

Lodging expense
increase sought

North Dakota’s House
Republican majority leader
is seeking a raise for lawmakers’ housing allowance during the Legislature, saying
the current $1,040 monthly
limit forces some legislators
to pay a share of their lodging costs.
Rep. Al Carlson, R-Fargo,
said the oil boom in western
North Dakota has prompted
more demand for Bismarck
hotel rooms. Many won’t
agree to house lawmakers
for $34.67 a day for a 30-day
month, he said.
“Right now their selection is pretty limited,” Carlson said of legislators seeking hotel rooms. “There’s a
number of them paying
more than they should have
to pay out of their pocket.
You don’t work here for the
money, but I don’t believe
you should go backwards
because of that.”
Carlson’s proposal would
raise the monthly stipend to
$1,228, an increase of 18 percent. The amount is determined by a formula that uses
a percentage of the nightly

North Dakota lodging rate
set by the U.S. General Services Administration for
traveling federal employees.
The House’s Government
and Veterans Affairs Committee has scheduled a hearing on the measure at 3 p.m.
Thursday.
The monthly amount is a
maximum that taxpayers
will pay for each legislator’s
housing. If a lawmaker is
staying in cheaper digs, he or
she will be reimbursed only
for what he or she pays.
Mike Motschenbacher,
president of the North Dakota Hospitality Association
and assistant general manager of two Bismarck hotels,
the Expressway Inn and the
Expressway Inn & Suites, said
he believed as many as half of
Bismarck’s hotels would still
decline to house lawmakers
even with the proffered
increase in reimbursement.
A more realistic payment is
$1,500 to $1,800, he said.
The two Expressway
hotels are owned by Rep.
Mark Dosch, R-Bismarck.
Motschenbacher said they
limit the number of legislators they will house because
of the low reimbursement.
Fourteen legislators are staying at the hotels, which have
224 rooms between them.
Customers who stay for
months at a time can cost
Continued on 7A

More young people in nursing homes
By MATT SEDENSKY
Associated Press
SARASOTA, Fla. — Adam Martin
doesn’t fit in here. No one else in this
nursing home wears Air Jordans. No
one else has stacks of music videos by
2Pac and Jay-Z. No one else is just 26.
It’s no longer unusual to find a
nursing home resident who is
decades younger than his neighbor:
About one in seven people now living in such facilities in the U.S. is
under 65. But the growing phenomenon presents a host of challenges
for nursing homes, while patients
like Martin face staggering isolation.
“It’s just a depressing place to
live,” Martin says. “I’m stuck here.
You don’t have no privacy at all. People die around you all the time. It
starts to really get depressing
because all you’re seeing is negative,
negative, negative.”
The number of under-65 nursing
home residents has risen about
22 percent in the past eight years to
about 203,000, according to an

analysis of statistics from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That number has climbed as
mental health facilities close and
medical advances keep people alive
after they’ve suffered traumatic
injuries. Still, the overall percentage
of nursing home residents 30 and
younger is less than 1 percent.
Martin was left a quadriplegic
when he was accidentally shot in
the neck last year by his stepbrother. He spent weeks hospitalized
before being released to a different
nursing home and eventually ended
up in his current residence, the
Sarasota Health and Rehabilitation
Center. There are other residents
who are well short of retirement age,
but he is the youngest.
The yellow calendar on the wall
of Martin’s small end-of-the-hall
room advertises activities such as
arts and crafts. In the small common room down the hall, a worker
draws a bingo ball and intones,
“I-16. I-one-six.” As Martin maneuvers his motorized wheelchair

MONTEREY PARK, Calif.
(AP) — Authorities have
identified two of the suspects
recorded in sexual assaults of
profoundly disabled women,
officials said Friday.
Los Angeles police officers
recognized the men after
detectives went public with
artist sketches and photos of
four men on Thursday, Los
Angeles County Sheriff’s Sgt.
Dan Scott said. As many as
10 suspects could have been
involved in the assaults.
One of the suspects, Bert
Hicks, was a worker at a Los
Angeles care facility and had
already been prosecuted by
police for two felony sex
counts and two abuse
counts. He is currently
imprisoned at Tehachapi
State Prison and scheduled
for release in 2012, Scott said.
The videos show the men
sexually assaulting physically
and mentally disabled
women, some of them in diapers.

French nationals
are kidnapped
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) —
Two Westerners believed to
be French nationals were
kidnapped late Friday by
armed men who burst into
an upscale bar in Niger’s
capital where they were sitting and forced the Westerners to leave with them.
In September, five French
citizens were seized from a
uranium mining town in the
country’s far north by an
African offshoot of al-Qaida,
and Niger has become a kidnapping hub for the terror
cell.
It was not possible to confirm whether the incident
shortly before midnight Friday is by the group, known as
Al-Qaida in the Islamic
Maghreb. If it is, it will mark
the first time foreigners were
taken by the al-Qaida franchise from the capital of an
African country instead of a
remote town or stretch of
road, indicating the group is
becoming bolder.

Linguists vote ‘app’
Word of the Year
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The
votes are in. The American
Dialect Society chose “app”
as its 2010 “Word of the Year.”
The shortened slang term
for a computer or smart
phone application was
picked by linguists as the
word that best sums up the
country’s preoccupation last
year.
“Nom” — a chat-, tweetand text-friendly syllable
that connotes “yummy food”
— was the runner-up. It
derives from the Cookie
Mo n s t e r c h a r a c t e r o n
“Sesame Street” or, more
accurately, the sound he
makes as he devours cookies: “Nom, nom, nom, nom.”
Friday’s vote came at a
Pittsburgh hotel ballroom
during the national conference of the Linguistic Society
of America, an umbrella
group that includes the
Dialect Society.

WASHINGTON — House
Republicans cleared a hurdle Friday in their first
attempt to scrap President
Barack Obama’s landmark
health care overhaul, yet it
was little more than a symbolic swipe at the law.
The real action is in
states, where Republicans
are using federal courts and
governors’ offices to lead the
assault against Obama’s signature domestic achievement, a law aimed at covering nearly all Americans.
In a post-election bow to
tea partiers by the new GOP
House majority, Republican
lawmakers are undertaking
an effort to repeal the health
care law in full knowledge
that the Democratic Senate
will stop them from doing
so.
Republicans prevailed
Friday in a 236-181 procedural vote, largely along
party lines, that sets the

Associated Press

Washington Mayor Vincent Gray, right, and Chief of Police Cathy Lanier talk with the
media near a postal sorting facility in Washington on Friday.
voice can be heard in Washington-area Metro stations,
reminding commuters to
report suspicious behavior.
The Maryland packages
had a message railing against
highway signs urging
motorists to report suspicious activity by calling a tollfree number. The message
read: “Report suspicious
activity! Total Bull——! You
have created a self fulfilling
prophecy.”
The state’s terrorism tip
line is widely shown on overhead highway signs along
with information about
missing children. To the ire of
some drivers, the signs added
real-time traffic estimates to
major highways in March.
Some commuters complained drivers slowed to
read the signs and backed up
traffic. At Gov. Martin O’Mal-

ley’s request, the state studied
the issue and removed the
real-time postings from one
congested area on the Capital
Beltway. There are 113 signs
statewide.
The earlier packages,
addressed to O’Malley and to
Transportation Secretary
Beverley Swaim-Staley, have
been taken to the FBI lab in
Quantico, Va., for forensic
analysis, and Lanier said the
D.C. package would also be
sent there.
The packages did not contain explosive material. Officials have declined to speculate on whether the incendiar y devices worked as
intended or were supposed
to cause more harm.
Leo W. West, a retired FBI
explosives expert in Virginia,
said he didn’t have much
information on the design of

the packages, but generally, if
there’s no explosive, the
devices aren’t meant to cause
much destruction.
“With an incendiary, you
have a slower process
involved,” he said. “It can
burst into flames, but unless
it’s something that’s a liquid
that’s expelled ... you wouldn’t have that sort of immediate danger to the person.”
At least initially, West said
it seems the packages are
meant to get the attention of
officials.
The Maryland mailings
we re o p e n e d w i t h i n a
15-minute period Thursday
at buildings 20 miles apart.
Mailroom employees around
the state were back at work
Friday, and they had pictures
of the packages and were
advised to be vigilant about
anything suspicious.

stage for the House to vote
next week on the repeal.
Shortly before the House
vote, Republican governors
representing 30 states
opened up a new line of
attack, potentially more successful.
In a letter to Obama and
congressional leaders, the
governors complained that
provisions of the health care
law are restricting their ability to control Medicaid
spending, raising the threat
of devastating cuts to other
critical programs, from education to law enforcement in
a weak economy. It’s ammunition for critics trying to
dismantle the overhaul
piece by piece.
Moreover, a federal judge
in Florida is expected to rule
shortly in a lawsuit brought
by 20 states that challenges
the law’s central requirement that most Americans
carry health insurance. A
judge in Virginia ruled it
unconstitutional last
month, while courts in two
other cases have upheld it.

It’s e x p e c t e d t h a t t h e
Supreme Court will ultimately have to resolve the
issue.
Obama made history last
year when Congress finally
passed the law after months
of contentious debate, closing in on a goal that Democrats had pursued for generations. Republicans say they
changed history by taking
back the House in the
midterm elections, partly on
the strength of their pledge
to tea party supporters and
other conservatives to undo
the divisive law, whose final
costs and consequences
remain largely unknown.
Some Republicans hope
to get enough momentum
going to force Obama and
the Democrats into an early
capitulation. “If you have to
do an amputation, get it over
with,” Rep. Steve King, RIowa, a repeal leader, said
after the House vote. “We
need to get this showdown
over so we can go on to other
issues.”
But Senate Democrats

say what King and other
House Republicans think
matters little, since they will
block any repeal legislation
on the other side of the
Capitol.
During last year’s election
campaign, many Democrats
sought cover when the
health care law would come
up. On the House floor, they
unleashed a full-throated
defense, accusing Republicans of trying to take away
benefits that many people
are already receiving, such
as lower prescription costs
for Medicare recipients,
extended coverage for
young adults on their parents’ plan and newly available insurance for people
with serious medical problems.
“Repeal this bill, and
you’re going to find more
Americans dying,” said Rep.
John Garamendi, D-Calif.
Obama’s grassroots political
operation, Organizing for
America, sent out an e-mail
requesting donations for a
campaign against repeal.

Hitler-mocking dog enraged Nazis
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
Associated Press
BERLIN — Newly discovered documents have revealed a bizarre footnote to the history of the Second
World War: a Finnish mutt whose imitation of the Hitler salute enraged the
Nazis so deeply that they started an
obsessive campaign against the dog’s
owner.
Absurdly, a totalitarian state that
dominated most of Europe was
unable to do much about Jackie and
his paw-raising parody of Germany’s
Fuehrer.
In the middle of World War II —
months before Hitler ordered some

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House takes swipe at health law
By RICARDO
ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press

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By JESSICA GRESKO
and BEN NUCKOLS
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A package addressed to the U.S.
Homeland Security secretary
ignited Friday at a postal
facility, and authorities said it
was similar to fiery parcels
sent to Maryland officials a
day earlier by someone complaining about the state’s terrorism tip line.
The suspicious package
w a s d i s c ov e re d by a n
employee at the D.C. facility
when it began popping and
smoking, and it emitted “a
brief flash of fire” before
extinguishing itself, D.C.
Police Chief Cathy Lanier
said. The details were very
much like what Maryland
authorities described Thursday after workers at state government buildings opened
the book-sized packages.
There, the workers’ fingers
were singed.
It’s not clear what ignited
the package at the D.C. processing facility because the
worker didn’t open it, Lanier
said. No one was injured.
Authorities were bracing
for more packages to surface.
“Right now we don’t have
any other packages, but we’re
not taking anything for granted,” Lanier said.
The D.C. package was
addressed to Homeland
Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano, according to a
department official who
spoke on the condition of
anonymity because of an
ongoing investigation. The
parcel ignited in northeast
Washington about 2:45 p.m.
Authorities wouldn’t say
whether it contained a note.
I n Ju l y, Na p o l i t a n o
launched a nationwide “see
something, say something”
campaign. Her recorded

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4.5 million troops to invade the Soviet Union — the Foreign Office in
Berlin commanded its diplomats in
the Nazi-friendly Nordic country to
gather evidence on the dog, and even
came up with plans to destroy the
pharmaceutical wholesale company
of its owner.
Historians had not been aware of
the episode before some 30 files containing parts of the correspondence
and diplomatic cables were recently
found by a researcher at the political
archives of the German Foreign
Office.
Klaus Hillenbrand, an expert who
has written several books on the Nazi
period, was contacted by the histori-

an and examined all of the documents for an article to be published
today in daily newspaper Die
Tageszeitung.
“Just months before the Nazis
launched their attack on the Soviet
Union, they had nothing better to do
than to obsess about this dog,” Hillenbrand said.
The dog, Jackie, was a mutt owned
by Tor Borg, a businessman from the
Finnish city of Tampere. Borg’s wife
Josefine, a German citizen known for
her anti-Nazi sentiments, dubbed the
dog Hitler because of the strange way
it raised its paw high in the air like
Associated Press
Germans greeting the Fuehrer with a
Tor Borg and his dog Jackie.
cry of “Heil Hitler!”

Sisters who will share kidney released
By HOLBROOK MOHR
Associated Press

PEARL, Miss. — Sisters
Jamie and Gladys Scott left
prison on Friday for the first
time in 16 years, yelling,
“We’re free,” and “God bless
y’all,” as they pulled away in
a silver SUV. That freedom,
though, comes with an
unusual condition: Gladys
has one year to donate a
kidney to her ailing sister.
Now, with their life sentences for armed robbery
suspended, their future is
uncertain. Their children
have grown up. Their family
moved to Florida. They are
using technology like cell
phones for the first time.
And questions abound:
Who will pay for their medical care? Would Gladys’
conditional release hold up
in court? And perhaps the
biggest mystery ahead: Are
they a compatible match for
the kidney transplant?
An afternoon news conference for the sisters in
Jackson was attended by
dozens of supporters. Many
cheered. Some sang. A few
cried.
The sisters — Jamie
wearing pink, Gladys wear(Deaths and state deaths ing purple — sat smiling at a
table, their hands clasped
on 5A.)
before them as their attorney, Chokwe Lumumba,
thanked a list of advocacy
groups who worked for their
release.
“We just totally blessed.
*
We totally blessed,” Gladys
*Some categories excluded
Scott said. “It’s been a long,
hard road, but we made it.”

Associated Press

Jamie, foreground, and Gladys Scott wave from a
vehicle as they leave the Central Mississippi
Correctional Facility in Pearl, Miss., on Friday.
Gladys said she learned
about her release on television.
“I just started screaming
and hollering. I’m still
screaming and hollering,”
she said.
Jamie said she looked
forward to moving on her
with her life and doubted at
times she’d ever be free, but
she leaned on her faith.
“My sister been saying all
day, ‘You don’t look well,’”
she said. “I haven’t woke up.
It’s like a dream.”
Jamie said the reality of
the situation will probably
sink in when she sees her
grown children, who were
young kids when they went
to prison. She said she
would have a dialysis treatment this morning

in Florida.
The sisters are moving to
Pensacola in the Florida
Panhandle to live with their
mother. They hope to qualify for government-funded
Medicaid insurance to pay
for the transplant and for
38-year-old Jamie Scott’s
dialysis, which officials said
had cost Mississippi about
$200,000 a year. A few doctors have expressed interest
in performing the transplant, but there are no firm
plans yet.
Mississippi Gov. Haley
Barbour agreed to release
Jamie Scott because of her
medical condition, but
36-year-old Gladys Scott
must donate the kidney
within one year as a condition of her release. The

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women weren’t eligible for
parole until 2014. The supporters who fought for the
sisters’ release insisted that
Jamie Scott may not live that
long without a new kidney.
Barbour has not directly
answered questions from
The Associated Press about
whether he would send
Gladys Scott back to prison
if she changes her mind or if
she is not a suitable donor
for her sister.
“All of the ‘What if’ questions are, at this point, purely hypothetical. We’ll deal
with those situations if they
actually happen,” Barbour
said in a statement last
week.
However, the sisters’
attorney, Chokwe Lumumba, and Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of
the NAACP, have said the
governor’s office assured
them the transplant condition of release would not be
enforced. And the American
Society of Transplantation
has called on Barbour to
base his decision to release
Gladys Scott on legal merits
— not her willingness to
donate an organ.
“The decision to donate
an organ should be a truly
selfless act, free from coercion and not conditioned
on financial or any other
material gain,” American
Society of Transplantation
president Dr. Maryl R. Johnson said Friday in a statement.
Barbour, a two-term
Republican, leaves office
next January.

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DEATHS
Rose Schiltz

Elwyn Vanous

DICKINSON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rose
Schiltz, 88, Dickinson, died
Jan. 5, 2011, at her home.
Mass of Christian burial will
be held at 10 a.m. today,
Jan. 8, at St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Catholic
Church, Dickinson. Interment will take place later in
the spring at St. Wenceslaus
Cemetery.
She is survived by her four
children, Lester, Beulah,
Darlene Gilmour, Arizona,
Aleta Hendricks, Dickinson,
and Leon, Detroit Lakes,
Minn.; 14 grandchildren;
31 great-grandchildren;
three great-great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Bobbie
Rummel, Dickinson, and
Esther Wendorf, Wayzata,
Minn. (Ladbury Funeral Service, Dickinson)

To d a y, w e
remember a true
American hero and
a North Dakota
cowboy. Elwyn O.Vanous, 94,
Mandan, formerly of
Driscoll, passed away Jan. 7,
2011, at Medcenter One Care
Center off Collins, with his
family by his side. Services
will be at 11 a.m. Monday,
Jan. 10, at First Lutheran
Church, 408 Ninth St. N.W.,
Mandan, with the Rev. Lee
Herberg and the Rev. Ron
Hildahl officiating. Burial
will be in the spring at Woodlawn Cemetery in Steele with
full military honors.

Maggie Weisbeck
Maggie Weisbeck, 85, formerly of Hague, died Jan. 6,
2011, at a Bismarck care center. Services will be held at
Elwyn Vanous
10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 10,
a t St . M a r y â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s C a t h o l i c
Visitation will be held
Church, Hague. Further
arrangements are pending from 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday,
with Myers Funeral Home, Jan. 9, at Parkway Funeral
Service, 2330 Tyler Parkway,
Linton.
Bismarck. Visitation will continue one hour prior to the
service at the church. The
Shelley A. (Marx) Stormer, family invites you to join
56, Texas, formerly of Dickin- them for refreshments and
son, died Dec. 23, 2010, in fellowship at the AMVETS
Texas. Mass will be held later Club Post No. 9, 2402 Railroad
this spring at St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ave., Bismarck, immediately
Catholic, Church, Dickin- following the funeral service.
son. Further arrangements
Elwyn was born March 11,
are pending with Stevenson 1916, near Driscoll, to Emil
Funeral Home, Dickinson.
and Minetta (Saur) Vanous.
He grew up on his family
farm in Driscoll. Elwyn was
BOWMAN â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fran Silha, drafted into the U.S. Army
83, Bowman, died Jan. 7, and served his country dur2011, at the Southwest ing World War II from 1941Healthcare Hospital, Bow- 45, held captive as a POW for
man. Mass of Christian bur- one year and one day. He was
ial will be held at 11 a.m. captured in Africa. After
MST Monday, Jan. 10, at St. spending time in three
Charles Catholic Church, prison camps in Italy he
Bowman. Further arrange- e s c a p e d a n d w a l k e d
ments are pending with 700 miles across Italy, travelKrebsbach and Kulseth ing at night until he reached
friendly lines. He received
Funeral Home, Bowman.
medical care and was sent
home. Elwyn was honorably
(Funerals today on 4A.)
discharged with the rank of
s e r g e a n t a n d re c e i v e d
numerous medals and World
War II honors. He returned to
North Dakota and married
Helen Attletweedt on June 9,
ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; John 1946. They farmed in the
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jackâ&#x20AC;? Oliver, a professor Driscoll area for many years.
emeritus at Cornell Universi- During this time four sons
ty and geophysicist who spe- were born, then they moved
cialized in plate tectonics to California, where their
and using seismic waves to only daughter was born.
explore the Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crust, has Returning to North Dakota,
Elwyn worked for Northern
died. He was 87.
Oliver died Wednesday, Improvement Construction
according to Bangs Funeral Company working road conHome in Ithaca, N.Y., which struction all across the state.
is handling the arrange- Helen passed away in 1966.
ments. There was no imme- With five children to raise
diate word on the cause of alone, Elwyn needed to work
close to home, so he worked
death.
Oliver earned bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for Northern Improvements
and masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degrees in cattle ranch in Bismarck.
In December 1969, Elwyn
physics and a doctorate in
married
Helen Jenner. They
geophysics at Columbia University. He went on to continued to live and work
become chairman of the on Northernâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ranch until he
geology department at retired. They then moved to
the Driscollâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Steele area.
Columbia.
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he enjoyed working for area
farmers for the next few
years. They lived in Tuttle
until 2008, when Elwyn
joined his sister at the Golden Manor Nursing Home in
Steele and then settled in at
the care center in Mandan.
Elwyn was a true cowboy and
had a passion for working
with horses and a passion for
the fun they provided to others. He was known for the
hundreds of hay rides over
the years he gave to numerous church groups. Elwyn
enjoyed trail rides around the
state and riding the Pikes
Peak fur trapping expedition
in Colorado as an honorary
member of the Colorado Territory Regulators. He enjoyed
all rodeo events; he was a former rodeo pickup man and a
founding member of the
Steele Rodeo Assoc. in the
1950s. He enjoyed hunting
and fishing with his sons and
neighbors, playing cards,
dancing and all the memories made with his family. He
was a lifetime member of the
American Ex-Prisoners of
War, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, Disabled American
Veterans, AMVETS and
American Legion.
Elwyn is survived by his
wife, Helen, Mandan; his
sons, Laurie (Phyllis),
Wyoming, and Tracy (Cindy),
Bismarck; his daughter, Mercedes (Roger) Clark, Bismarck; his daughter-in-law,
Diana Vanous, Bismarck; his
son-in-law, Les Merkel, California; his stepson, Maynard
Jenner, Bismarck; his stepdaughter, Arlys Jenner, Sterling; his grandchildren, Lyle
and Darrin Forderer, Samuel
(Carrie),Vanous Sara (Wes)
Jiras, Nathan Vanous, Tiffany
(Duane) Kroh, Heather
(Colin) Engel, Lonnie Jenner,
Lisa Kroh, Leanne (Bill)
Toepke, Toby (Missy) Jenner,
Jesse Merkel, and Tonya
Merkel; 11 little cowboys and
10 little cowgirls (greatgrandchildren); one greatgreat grandchild; his brothers, Leonard (Edna) and Emil
(Alice), both of Arizona; a sister, Fern Hadsall, Bismarck;
and several nieces and
nephews.
He was preceded in death
by his parents; his first wife,
Helen; his sons, Naylor and
Craig; his stepdaughter,
Sharon Merkel; his brother,
Harvey; and his sisters,
Dorothy and Cora.
In lieu of flowers, please
consider a donation in
memory of Elwyn Vanous to
the Kidder County Veterans
Memorial Fund, Box 225,
Steele, N.D. 58482.
Go to www.parkwayfuneral.com to share memories of Elwyn and sign the
online guest book.

Vernon Enge

Veronica Zander

Teresa L. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Terryâ&#x20AC;? Sorenson, 55, Mandan, formerly of
Keene, died Jan. 5, 2011, in a
Bismarck hospital. Services
will be held at 1 p.m. today,
Jan. 8, at First Lutheran
Church, Keene. Interment
will be at Good Hope Cemetery, Keene.
She is survived by her
husband, Eldon; her children, Scott Wilson, Beulah,
Sarah Fox, Flandreau, S.D.,
and Tiffanie Fragoza, Tasha
Tackett, Clayton Sorenson
and Brittany Sorenson, all of
Mandan; 13 grandchildren;
one brother, Thomas Wilson;
and two sisters, Beverly LeVell, Helena, Mont., and
Kimberly Wilson, San Francisco. (Langhans Funeral
Home, Parshall)

Vernon R. Enge, 68, Royersford, Pa., husband of
Mary C. (Mortensen), passed
away on Jan. 5, 2011, at his
home after a 22-month battle with lymphoma.

Veronica Zander, 87, died
peacefully in her sleep surrounded by her family on
Jan. 6, 2011, in Bismarck.
Mass of Christian burial will
be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 10, at Church of
Corpus Christi, Bismarck,
with the Rev. Paul Becker as
celebrant. Burial will be at
Mandan Union Cemetery.

Born and raised in Bismarck, he was the son of the
late Vernon L. and Louella
(Potter) Enge.
Vern was a member of
Sacred Heart Roman
Catholic Church in Royersford, the Philadelphia Chapter of the Lewis and Clark
Trail Heritage Foundation,
the Greater Norristown Art
League and the Philadelphia
Museum of Art. He obtained
his B.A. and B.S. degrees at
Dickinson State University
in North Dakota and his M.A.
at North Dakota State University in Fargo.
Prior to moving to Pennsylvania, Vern taught English
in several North Dakota high
schools. Vern began as assistant editor of the Evening
Phoenix, and then served as
editor for Advance for Respiratory Care and several other
medical publications for
24 years working for Merion
Publications of King of Prussia.
Vern was a voracious
reader of the classics, modern novelists and, especially,
of history. Also an outdoor
enthusiast, he enjoyed fishing, boating and camping
with his family.
Surviving, along with his
wife of 42 years, are his sons,
Eric V. Enge and Evan M.
Enge (Teresa); his grandson,
Christopher Stinger; his sisters, Diane (Jim) Hess, Linda
Evarts and Joyce (Ray) Kaul;
his brothers-in-law, James
(Sharon) Mortensen and
John ( Jackie) Mortensen;
and numerous nieces and
nephews.
Along with his parents, he
was predeceased by his stepparents, Eldean and Richard
Corcoran.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:15 a.m. EST
Tuesday, Jan. 11, at Sacred
Heart R.C. Church, 838 Walnut St., Royersford, with the
Rev. Peter J. DiMaria officiating. Burial will be in Limerick
Garden of Memories.
Visitation will be held
from 6:30 to 8 p.m. EST Monday at Catagnus Funeral
Home and Cremation Center, Ltd., 329 N. Lewis Road,
Royersford, and on Tuesday
from 9:15 to 10 a.m. EST at
the church.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made
i n Ve r nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s n a m e t o T h e
Leukemia and Lymphoma
Society, Donor Services, P.O.
Box 4072, Pittsfield, Mass.
01202; Pottstown Regional
Cancer Center, 1600 Armand
Hammer Blvd., Pottstown,
Pa. 19464; or Sacred Heart
R.C. Church, P.O. Box 64,
Royersford, Pa. 19468.
View obituaries or send
condolences at www.catagnusfuneralhomes.com.

Myrtle Biesterfeld

Veronica
Zander

Visitation will be held
from 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday at
Weigel Funeral Home, Mandan, with a Christian Mothers rosary at 3:30 p.m. and a
Catholic Daughters rosary at
4 p.m., followed by a parish
vigil at 4:15 p.m. Visitation
will continue one hour
before the service at the
church on Monday.
Ve r o n i c a K n o l l , t h e
daughter of Joe and Anna
Marie (Schmidt) Knoll, was
born in Morton County on
Oct. 25, 1923. She grew up
and was educated in the
Crown Butte area. She stayed
at home with her parents,
until she married Jack Zander on Jan. 18, 1944, at St.
Vincent Church in Crown
Butte. After their marriage,
they lived in Mandan, where
she worked for JC Penney
and Mandan Drug. Veronica
and Jack moved to Glendive,
Mont., in 1968 until 1988,
where she continued to work
for Brenner Drug Store. In
1989, they moved back to
Mandan to be closer to their
family and relatives.
Veronica was an avid
bridge player and had a circle of friends that she cherished and will always
remember their kindness
throughout the years, most
recently during her illness.
She was very devoted to her
faith, which she expressed by
daily prayer and making
every attempt to attend Sunday Mass. During her
younger years, she enjoyed
gardening and canning and
developed a special recipe
for peanut brittle. She made
it during the holidays and
had many people requesting
pounds of her peanut brittle.
While working in Mandan
and Glendive, she had a collection of collectibles that
she still has to this day. She
lived an active life, loved her
family, was always gracious
and concerned that her
appearance was elegant. Her
sense of independence was
most important to her, wanting to stay in her home as
long as possible. When her
health failed due to illness in
December 2009, she moved
to the Baptist Home.
Left with memories of
Veronica are her daughter,
Jodene (Leo) Zachmeier,
Mandan; her sons, Rande
(Peggy) Zander, Mandan,
and Kenneth Zander and
Craig (Barb) Zander, both of
Bismarck; her sister, Kay
(Norm) Flom, Appleton,
Wis.; her twin brother, Mike
J. (Mary) Knoll, Bismarck;
nine grandchildren; and six
great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in
death by her parents; her
husband, Jack, who died in
1998; and her brothers, Tony
(Caroline) Knoll, George
( Josephine) Knoll, Peter
(Kay) Knoll and Edward
Knoll.
Go to www.weigelfuneral.com to sign the online
guest book and view flower
and tribute photos.

W I LT O N â&#x20AC;&#x201D; M y r t l e
Biesterfeld, 92, Wilton, died
Jan. 6, 2011, at Prairieview
Nursing Home, Underwood.
Services will be held at
11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 10, at
First Presbyterian Church,
Wilton. Interment will be
held at a later date at
Riverview Cemetery, Wilton.
She is survived by one
son, Ken, Wilton; one daughter, Kathy Westrum, Turtle
PICK CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Orlynn G.
Lake; six grandchildren; and
12 great-grandchildren. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Orlieâ&#x20AC;? Johnson, 66, Pick
(Goetz Funeral Home, Wash- City, formerly of Glenburn,
died Jan. 5, 2011, at
burn)
Sakakawea Medical Center,
Hazen, after a courageous
battle with cancer. A memoAgnes E. Hedner, 99, rial service will be held at
Golden Valley, Minn., for- 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 10, at
merly of Bismarck, died Bethany Lutheran Church,
Jan. 6, 2011, in Minneapolis. Minot. Burial will be at SunServices will be held at noon set Memorial Gardens,
Monday, Jan. 10, at Wash- Minot, at a later date.
bur n-McReavy Chapel,
He is survived by his sisEdina, Minn. Private inter- ters, Arlyce Holtz and Mariment will be at Fort Snelling lyn Miller, both of Minot, and
National Cemetery.
Marcia Hettich, Elgin; and
Survivors include her one brother, Mark, Minot.
children, JoAnn Easton and (Thompson-Larson Funeral
Marlys Hedner Cohen.
Home, Minot)

Orlynn Johnson

Agnes Hedner

SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 2011

6A

“Seeking to find and publish
the truth, that the people of a
great state might have a light by
which to guide their destiny.”
— Stella Mann,
Tribune publisher, 1939

“Something to think
about .. perhaps the price
is headed upwards as
world economies recover
because we have actually
reached the point were at
‘full economic production’
there simply is not
enough oil to go around
anymore. That is, we have
already passed peak oil.
The time of prices
plummenting, like in the
’80s, has come ... and
gone.”
— highplainsdrifter, on “Gas
prices on the rise,” posted
Jan. 6

“If you think they have
it so easy, then run for
office! Besides, they don’t
see any of this money. It
is a straight pass-through
to local businesses for
lodging. Just in case you
didn’t do the math, what
they get now is roughly
$35/day for a motel.
Have you tried to get a
motel in Bismarck for
$35 a day? Good luck
with that ... Average hotel
costs are anywhere from
$75-$100+/day, so
having a legislator in your
hotel at $35 a day isn’t
doing anyone favors,
versus renting out that
room at double the cost.”
— BabyT, on “Lodging
expense boost sought for N.D.
lawmakers,” posted Jan. 7

“Well, at a time all
agencies at the federal
level are taking states’
powers away, might as
well throw this in, too. Yay
for big federal government
power grab! Boo
constitution and states’
rights!”
— SK, on “State officials
blast Corps of Engineers water
storage fee proposal,” posted
Jan. 7

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‘Strong and growing stronger’
“I am fortunate today to be able
to say, with complete confidence,
that the state of our state is strong
and growing stronger.”
— Gov. Jack Dalrymple, in his
State of the State speech to the
opening session of the Legislature.
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“Even if the Garrison Dam had
not been built, it borders on an
insult to demand we pay for it.”
— Attorney General Wayne
Stenehjem, talking about a federal
plan to charge for storing water
behind Garrison Dam.
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“It’s a myth
that you can sell
gas at cost or at a
loss and make it
up with candy bars.”
— David Froelich, president of
Missouri Valley Petroleum, talking
about the increased price of gasoline.

Eminently quotable

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“I think the road system right
now is probably constraining the
logistics of the oil industry.”
— Denver Toliver, associate
director of the Upper Great Plains
Transportation Institute, talking
about the cost of keeping up roads

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used by the oil
industry in western North Dakota.
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“Religions have used speech to
frighten people for time immemorial. It’s not something that we
always condone, but it happens
and it’s a religious right.”
— Chistopher Dodson, director
of the North Dakota Catholic Conference, speaking against a hate
crime bill in the Legislature.
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comprehensive network of programs and services to ensure that
our elderly are able to remain
healthy and safe.”
— Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerald VandeWalle, speaking
to the Legislature about elder care.
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“The nurses said he might turn
a little bit blue because he was
born early, but he just kept turning
blue.”
— McKenzie Cahil, talking
about the birth of her son, Rieken,
born with a heart defect and saved
by an emergency procedure.

“An aging population requires a

One New Year’s resolution that should be kept
By BONNIE STAIGER
Bismarck
The ball has dropped
and it’s a new year, when
new resolutions and promises abound. After the gavel
drops to mark the start of
the 112th Congress, the
new leadership in the U.S.
House of Representatives is
expected to take swift
action to deliver on a promise made to the American
people: Repeal the health
care law.
There are many reasons
for repeal.
The political
practicality
of doing so
should be
obvious — if
the recent
election
results
weren’t
enough,
Staiger
December
Rasmussen
polls show a majority of
voters favor repeal.
There are also powerful
fiscal and economic reasons widely agreed upon
by economists on all
sides.
The path to economic
recovery is already questionable and fragile, and
should not be put at further risk because of this
law.
But one reason for
repeal should mean more
than others: This health
care law is harmful to
small business and small
business wants it undone.
Small business owners
and their employees have
already started to feel the

negative impacts of this
law. Some have had their
insurance plans canceled.
Others are looking at
changing plans because
they will no longer be able
to afford to meet new
requirements.
Worse than the impact
small businesses already
feel is the anticipation and
uncertainty about what is
yet to come.
The law is so big and so
complicated, many lawmakers who supported it
have confessed they don’t
even know what’s in it.
How can a small business
plan?
While the law leaves
small business riddled with

uncertainty about how
these new costs will impact
their ability to reinvest and
grow their business, there
are things that are certain
for small business.
Without a doubt, the
health care law will increase
costs, leave consumers with
fewer choices and will bury
businesses in new requirements.
For example, there is a
special tax on the types of
insurance plans that small
businesses buy, amounting
to billions of dollars annually.
There is a new IRS
paperwork provision that
requires small businesses to
file a 1099 form for almost

every business transaction
that totals $600 or more per
year.
There are other funnysounding taxes — like the
suntan tax and the Cadillac tax — that aren’t
funny to small business,
instead nailing their bottom line.
Worse, each funnysounding tax and new provision forces small businesses to spend more
money on their insurance
plans, tax compliance and
accountants, and less on
creating jobs and growing
the economy.
This isn’t the reform
small businesses asked for,
and it isn’t the reform that

will help them overcome
their biggest health care
problem: ever-increasing
costs.
In fact, this law has
made things worse than
before. In an economy like
this, that is a poison pill for
businesses trying to get
themselves back in the
black.
Democrats hold up preexisting conditions and
stricter rules on insurers as
reasons for preserving this
monstrosity. It’s true this
law contains some worthwhile provisions supported
by Americans, and there is
no reason those wouldn’t
be included in future, more
responsible reform efforts.
Using those few to
rationalize a trillion-dollar
program that taxpayers
and businesses can’t afford
makes little sense, though.
It’s like buying a mansion
because you like the door
knobs.
Small businesses have
been clear all along. They
wanted reform that lowered
costs. This law didn’t do
that. Instead, it added new
taxes, fees and mandates.
Small businesses are
ready to work with the
president and Congress to
reduce costs and expand
access to health care.
However, they must
first respond to the country’s unmistakable
demand to repeal the current law.
This is one New Year’s resolution that should be kept.
(Bonnie Staiger is the
North Dakota state director
for the National Federation
of Independent Business.)

What it means to be a North Dakotan
When North Dakota was
all farmers and ranchers
and we worked in the cold
until our checks burned, it
shaped us a certain way. It
helped create a template
for what it meant to be a
North Dakotan.
That template continues
to evolve because we are
not all farmers and ranchers any more. Many of us
moved to the city. There are
North Dakotans who have
never fed cows, hauled
bales or done
summer fallow.
And while
it’s true that
we’ve kept
many of the
characteristics of our
forefathers
and foremothers,
we’ve
changed. Just
like car and
truck batteries have
changed.
When we were all farming and ranching, vehicle
batteries often needed a

KEN
ROGERS

boost when temperatures
fell below zero. No more.
There are actually North
Dakotans driving around
without a set of jumper
cables in the
back, and they
wouldn’t know
how to put a set
of chains on a
car if they had
to.
One change
that we’ve made
was calculated.
By nurture,
necessity and
persuasion, and
at the hands of
political and
business leadership, North
Dakotans have become
entrepreneurs.
No longer content to
experience economics in

Our state’s
economy is
no longer
just at the
grain
elevator

the lineup to the local grain
elevator, we are turning our
farm and ranch experience
and knowledge into new
products and services and
selling them. We’ve become
global. We’re flying cows out
of Hector International Airport in Fargo for Kazakhstan.
While this shift from
rural to urban is pervasive
and real, it doesn’t mean
that North Dakotans are
divorcing themselves from
rural life or the outdoors.
The goal of many a North
Dakota urban dweller is to
have enough grass to
require a tractor — or,
even better, enough acres
for a hobby farm justifying
the purchase of a skid
loader.
The number and diversity of internal combustion
powered machines needed
to clear sidewalk and driveways after a snow storm in
Bismarck-Mandan is truly
impressive.
It is, I think, a fallback to
our cattle feeding-field
planting roots.
And how many North

Dakotans do you know that
save a few vacation days so
they can go back to the
farm in August to help with
harvest?
The farm and ranch are
still a part of who we are —
or may be, who we want to
be.
Coal has changed us as
well. It’s made miners and
power plant operators of
us. Now, we commute.
There was no such thing as
a commute time for North
Dakotans 30 years ago. Not
so, now.
There’s a steady stream
of cars and vans between
Bismarck-Mandan and the
power plants when shifts
change.
And, frankly, we’ve been
blended. In North Dakota,
Catholics have married
Lutherans and begot evangelical Christians. Norwegians have married Germans and at Christmas
their children share
lebkuchan and lefse. In earlier days in North Dakota,
these actions would have
been cause for being cast
out of the family and

shunned. It’s hard to find
pure Norwegian or German
stock around these days.
This changes who we are
and how we work together
(or not).
When I grew up in a
small town in North Dakota, there was “zero” diversity. Native Americans mostly
lived in reservation towns,
and there were few if any
international refugees in
the state.
We were, when I was
growing up, segregated —
not officially, of course. The
non-white minority was
very, very small. That’s no
longer the case.
Kids growing up in
North Dakota today, especially in the larger communities where a majority of
us live, find themselves in a
more diverse mix of students. It is, I think, a very
good thing.
Like it or not, we’re
changing.
(Ken Rogers’ column
appears each Saturday.
Contact him at
ken.rogers@bismarcktribune.com.)

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Saturday, January 8, 2011 ■ Page 7A

U.S. says use less fluoride
Continued from 1A
lower the recommended
level of fluoride in drinking
water for the first time in
nearly 50 years, based on a
fresh review of the science.
The announcement is likely to renew the battle over
fluoridation, even though the
addition of fluoride to drinking water is considered one of
the greatest public health successes of the 20th century. The
U.S. prevalence of decay in at
least one tooth among teens
has declined from about
90 percent to 60 percent.
The government first
began urging municipal
water systems to add fluoride
in the early 1950s. Since then,
it has been put in toothpaste
and mouthwash. It is also in a
lot of bottled water and in
soda. Some kids even take
fluoride supplements. Now,
young children may be getting too much.
“Like anything else, you
can have too much of a good
thing,” said Dr. Howard Pollick, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco’s dental school and
spokesman for the American
Dental Association.

One reason behind the
change: About 2 out of 5 adolescents have tooth streaking
or spottiness because of too
much fluoride, a government
study found recently. In
extreme cases, teeth can be
pitted by the mineral —
though many cases are so
mild only dentists notice it.
The problem is generally
considered cosmetic and not
a reason for serious concern.
The splotchy tooth condition, fluorosis, is unexpectedly common in youngsters
ages 12 through 15 and
appears to have grown more
common since the 1980s,
according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
But there are also growing
worries about more serious
dangers from fluoride.
The Environmental Protection Agency released two
new reviews of research on
fluoride Friday. One of the
studies found that prolonged,
high intake of fluoride can
increase the risk of brittle
bones, fractures and crippling bone abnormalities.
Critics of fluoridated water

seized on the proposed
change Friday to renew their
attacks on it — a battle that
dates back to at least the Cold
War 1950s, when it was
denounced by some as a step
toward Communism. Many
activists nowadays don’t
think fluoride is essential,

and they praised the government’s new steps.
“Anybody who was antifluoride was considered
crazy,” said Deborah Catrow,
who successfully fought a
ballot proposal in 2005 that
would have added fluoride to
drinking water in Springfield,

Ohio. “It’s amazing that people have been so convinced
that this is an OK thing to do.”
Dental and medical
groups applauded the
announcement.
“This change is necessary
because Americans have
access to more sources of fluoride than they did when
water fluoridation was first
introduced,” Dr. O. Marion
Burton, president of the
American Academy of Pediatrics, said in a statement.
The fluoridated water
standard since 1962 has been
a range of 0.7 parts per million
for warmer climates where
people used to drink more
water to 1.2 parts per million
in cooler regions. The new
proposal from HHS would set
the recommended level at
just 0.7. Meanwhile, the EPA
said it is reviewing whether to
lower the maximum allowable level of fluoride in drinking water from the current
4 parts per million.
“EPA’s new analysis will
help us make sure that people benefit from tooth decay
prevention while at the same
time avoiding the unwanted

health effects from too much
fluoride,” said Peter Silva, an
EPA assistant administrator.
Fluoride is a mineral that
exists in water and soil. About
70 years ago, scientists discovered that people whose supplies naturally had more fluoride also had fewer cavities.
In 1945, Grand Rapids,
Mich., became the world’s
first city to add fluoride to its
drinking water. Six years later
a study found a dramatic
decline in tooth decay among
children there, and the surgeon general endorsed water
fluoridation.
And in 1955, Procter &
Gamble Co. marketed the
first fluoride toothpaste,
Crest, with the slogan “Look,
Mom, no cavities!”
But that same year, The
New York Times called fluoridation of public water one of
the country’s “fiercest controversies.” The story said some
opponents called the campaign for fluoridation “the
work of Communists who
want to soften the brains of
the American people.”
The battles continue for a
variety of reasons today.

Keeping the faith
not she wanted to continue
on with her calling as a pastor
after his death.
“To think about my future
when it was so altered was
nearly impossible at that
time,” Larson said.
Larson is the daughter of
Dan and Joleen Splichal of
Garrison.
Although it was difficult,
Larson made the decision to
continue on the path to
become a pastor. She is now
serving the faith community
at Heart River Lutheran
Church in Mandan.
Located on the North
Dakota Youth Correctional
Center campus, Heart River is
unique and has had a huge
influence on Larson’s life.
“It gives me life to be with
the youth at the Youth Correctional Center, even though
their lives are very, very difficult, and (to) be with a group
of people who are extremely
dedicated to mission and
excited about God, and what
God is doing in the world and
here in Bismarck-Mandan,”
Larson said.
The Rev. Peder Stenslie
says that Larson has had a significant influence on the
parish.
“She has brought so much
to our congregation — a
unique global prospective
that we haven’t had for years,
if ever I guess,” Stenslie said.
Though she is completely
invested in the parish she
serves, Larson also focuses on
the bigger picture.
“She’s interested in the
work of the global church. We
(Heart River), on the other
hand, have been a very local
centered congregation. We all
were very excited about having that brought to our con-

RING THE BELLS

FROM 1A

In remembrance of the
one-year anniversary of the
Haiti earthquake, Haiti
advocates are asking
people across the country
to toll their bells in unison
at 3:53 p.m. CST
Wednesday for 35 seconds
— the duration of the
Haitian earthquake.

gregation,” Stenslie said. “One
of her strengths might be
what we call one of our weaknesses.”
The relationship between
Heart River and the youth at
YCC is intricate, and Larson
says Heart River would not
exist without them. They participate in services by ushering, serving communion,
playing music and reading
lessons each Sunday.
“It’s really powerful,” Larson said.
Not initially what she had
planned, serving Heart River
has turned out to be what is
right for her now.
“I think that as human
beings, we’d really like to think
that we have control over our
lives or the power of choice,
and in some things we do, but
generally in terms of what we
do vocationally, it’s like if we
do something else it just
would feel wrong,” Larson
said.
Eventually, Larson plans to
return to Haiti, but in the
meantime she will continue
to advocate for all that can be
done to help the Haitians still
suffering.
“I’m waiting for the right
time to go,” Larson said. “And
maybe there isn’t a right time.

Submitted Photo

Left to right, Benjamin Larson, Renee Splichal Larson
and Jonathan Larson.
But right now, I know I’m supposed to be here.”
Helping those who are suffering is only part of her journey. She also must face what
happened to her family a year
ago.
“I feel like (Haiti) is a very
large piece of my grief journey
and some day I will face it,”
Larson said. “And it will be
scary, but I also need to go
there again.”
While there, Larson said, it
is necessary for her to thank
those who returned Ben’s
body to her. The U.S. Embassy
was in ruins, with no promises that Ben’s body could be
returned to his family.
“They (U.S. Embassy) said
that they wouldn’t be able to
dig Ben out for months if ever,
and so that was very devastating to us. The Haitian people
said, ‘We will dig Ben out,’ ”
Larson said.
Armed with hammers and
chisels, the Haitian people —
along with the Larsons’
friends Louis and Mytch

Dorviler, who organized the
effort — dug for three days,
risking their lives to return
Ben’s body to his family.
“They dug Ben out even
before they dug some of their
family members out that were
buried,” Larson said.
The immense love
between the Haitians and the
Larsons resulted from the
relationships fostered during
the two trips the Larsons took
to Haiti.
“Relationship is everything,” Larson said. “If you
can’t have trust in a relationship, you don’t have anything.”
The Larsons were invited
to Haiti last January to help
teach Lutheran theology.
Though they had to cut the
trip short because of the
earthquake, her invitation to
Haiti still stands.
“Mission work in Haiti is
extremely complex. We as
Westerners have always made
the mistake of going into a
culture that’s different than

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Florida-Bahamas Synod,
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information:
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g-justice/globalmission/haiti
ours and saying, ‘This is how
you do it.’ And we’re living in a
world where we can’t do that
anymore,” Larson said.
The same mindset applies
when speaking of the rebuilding of Haiti.
“Haitians are perfectly
capable of building themselves. They don’t need Americans to go there and build
things for them,” Larson said.
“We can go and build with
them, or we can empower
them to build, but they don’t
need us to come and build for
them.”
Monetary donations are
significant in the rebuilding
effort, but boosting the
morale of the Haitians is
important as well.
“It is exciting and life-giving to be a part of, and I hope
that as time goes on that people in the U.S. and all over the

More young people
Martin exchanges muted
hellos with older residents
as he travels down the hall to
smoke outside. His entire
daily routine, from showering to eating to enjoying a
cigarette, is dictated by the
schedules of those on whom
he relies for help.
He usually wakes up late,
then waits for an aide to
shower him, dress him and
return him to his wheelchair. He watches TV, goes to
therapy five days a week and
waits most days for his
friend to bring him meals.
He mostly keeps to himself, engaging in infrequent
and superficial conversations with his elders.
Martin’s parents are
unable to care for him at
home. His father is a truck
driver who is constantly on
the road, and his stepmother is sick with lupus. Medicaid pays his bills; it could
take a lawsuit for him to get
care outside a nursing
home.
Advocates who help
young patients find alternatives to nursing homes say
people are often surprised
to learn there are so many in
the facilities. About 15 per-

cent of nursing home residents are under 65.
“When I tell people I try
to get kids out of nursing
homes, they have no idea,”
says Katie Chandler, a
social worker for the nonprofit Georgia Advocacy
Office.
Federal law requires
states to provide alternatives to institutional care
when possible, though its
implementation varies
from place to place. Navigating the system can
require a knowledgeable
advocate and, sometimes,
litigation.
Not all younger nursing
home residents are there for
good. Some nursing homes
are seeing an increase in
patients who come to
recover there instead of in a
hospital, because it is
cheaper for their insurance
company.
Like Martin, many
younger residents have suffered a traumatic injury.
Others have neuromuscular
diseases such as multiple
sclerosis, or have suffered a
stroke.
Brent Kaderli, 26, of Baytown, Texas, became a

quadriplegic after a car
accident in 2006. He hopes
rehabilitation will help him
gain enough strength to
move into an assisted living
facility and eventually, to an
apartment with his girlfriend.
He shares his nursing
home room with an older
man who suffers from
dementia. It is not ideal, but
because his parents’ home
is not modified to accommodate his wheelchair, he
thinks it’s the only option
right now.
“Just knowing that one
day I will be better, I’m still
hoping and praying for that.
In the meantime, I think
about my family and my
friends, what I used to be
able to do, and I stay sad a
lot,” he says. “This is probably the best that I could
have at this point.”
The same generational
tensions that exist outside
nursing homes are inside
them as well, and are sometimes exacerbated by the
often close confines.
Older residents complain about loud music and
visitors, younger residents
complain about living with

someone with dementia or
b e i n g s e r v e d c re a m e d
spinach. Many nursing
homes try to house younger
residents together, though
in many cases their small
numbers make that difficult.
For young people who
find themselves newly disabled, the psychological
and social needs are often
even more challenging than
their physical demands.
That presents a challenge
for nursing homes that are
used to serving people near
the ends of their lives.
At Bayshore Health Center in Duluth, Minn., 34 of
the 160 residents are
younger people, all living in
private rooms in their own
wing. The staff has found
that subtle changes can
improve their lives.
Instead of bingo night,
there are poker games and
outings to nightclubs. For
someone who stays up late
watching a movie, breakfast
can be served at 10 a.m.,
rather than 7 a.m. Pizza is
offered in place of lasagna;
Mountain Dew and Coke
are poured instead of coffee
and tea.

Continued from 1A
Still, many younger residents sink into depression
because of their physical
limitations, their loneliness
and their nursing home surroundings.
“For them it’s a life sentence. When you’re 40 years
old you know you’re never
getting out. This is the way
your life will be forever and
ever. Amen,” says Diane
Persson, a gerontologist
who has written about the
boom in younger nursing
home residents.
Martin fears that may be
true for him. He used to look
forward to joining the Army
and ear ning a college
degree in science or engineering. Now he simply
looks forward to visits from
his friend Paul Tuttle, who
on this day brings him
nachos he feeds him along
with sips of water.
“If I’m not here, he’s got
no one his age to talk to
about football or anything,”
Tuttle says, wiping Martin’s
face.
Propped in his wheelchair, Martin says: “It makes
you feel old. If that’s all
you’re around, that’s what
you become.”

Continued from 1A
world can be invited to participate in that,” Larson said.
Though they are suffering
greatly, Larson says that the
Haitians have “incredible
faith.” Their ability to move
forward through pain and
remain faithful to God is
astonishing.
Larson also is remaining
strong in her faith, which she
simply defines as “trust in
God.”
“I think God’s strength
comes to us in the form of the
community of faith that
keeps proclaiming God’s
promises to us — always,”
Larson said.
Larson looks to this
strength in times of doubt,
and knows that Ben
remained faithful until the
moment he died.
“I don’t know of anyone
else who’s sung in their death,
at such a scary time. And how
incredible that is,” Larson
said. “It helps us all as his
family and I think other people who hear about the story,
to know Ben’s witness to
God’s love and Jesus for us all
and for the world.”
Even though her faith has
been tested and she has
questioned God about why
this had to happen to her
family and Haiti, she, like the
Haitians, remains hopeful.
“I don’t feel that faith is a
static thing, or even a linear
thing, but more of a — sometimes a roller coaster ride;
and to know that, that’s OK,”
Larson said. “I mean, when
we really question God, it
shows that we care.”
(Danielle Rebel is a senior
at Bismarck High School. She
can be reached at 250-8260 or
danielle.rebel@bismarcktribune.com.)

Lodging
expense
Continued from 1A
less to serve because they do
not have their rooms cleaned
daily, Motschenbacher said.
However, with a monthly rate
of $1,228, “you’ve got to have
almost no services” to make a
profit, he said.
“You can’t get any lower
than that and afford to have
them in here,” Motschenbacher said. “That’s why we
have to limit them.” At least
10 lawmakers who inquired
about staying at one of the
motels were refused, he said.
Some lawmakers elect to
stay in rented apartments,
condos or homes, some of
which have been left by residents who traveled south for
the winter.
For apartments, the proposed $1,228 monthly would
cover the bills. A fairly new
two-bedroom apartment in a
large building in Bismarck
rents for about $550 to $800
monthly, with three-bedroom apartments going for
$750 to $950, said Judy Sauter,
marketing and research
director for the BismarckMandan Development Association.

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Nething
continues
his streak
As if the State of the State
address and the crowded Capitol
parking lots weren’t signs
enough, the 62nd legislative session has begun.
I’ve been waiting for this
since I started nearly a year ago,
eager to get my first North
Dakota legislative session under
my belt.

S ECTION B

Energy Division questions
By REBECCA BEITSCH
Bismarck Tribune
Gov. Jack Dalrymple’s proposed
addition of an Energy Division to
the Department of Commerce is
already being called a “tough sell”
by people on both sides of the issue
after a Friday morning presentation to legislators on the House
Appropriations Committee.
Dalrymple made his original
pitch for the new division in his

budget address, asking for two new
full-time employees and about
$600,000 for the division. It wouldn’t take away any regulatory power
from any existing agencies but
would instead serve as a coordinating division for the booming energy sector.
Now it’s up to Department of
Commerce interim Director Paul
Govig to sell the idea to legislators.
“I think there’s a greater benefit

than what’s being spent here,”
Govig told legislators. He later said
the division would help to take a
big picture look at the industry and
all the effects it’s having.
“I think we can improve our
ability to deal with the industry’s
infrastructure needs in a proactive
way rather than a reactive way,”
Govig said.
The idea was met with a little
skepticism from lawmakers who
were trying to get a better idea of

ALL THAT JAZZ

what exactly the division would do.
Taking another approach, Rep.
Eliot Glassheim, D-Grand Forks,
asked, “What won’t happen if we
don’t approve this division?”
Glassheim said in a later interview that if Dalrymple thinks it’s
important, he’s inclined to lend
his support, especially if the current system is a drain on the overall department director.
“They still have to make the case
Continued on 6B

This week
in session

REBECCA
BEITSCH

By REBECCA BEITSCH
Bismarck Tribune
Of course, as a relative newbie, it’s always a good idea to get
some perspective from someone
who’s been around a while.
I’m talking about the longest
consecutive serving Republican
legislator in the United States.
I’m talking about Dave Nething.
The Republican senator from
Jamestown has been serving
since 1966.
1966!
According to Nething, it’s
important to keep “consecutive”
in the title, lest he be edged out
by a close competitor.
Kind of reminds me of former
Tribune sports writer Abe Winter, who called himself “the only
Polish-born Canadian Jew covering sports in North Dakota,”
though he probably could’ve lost
one adjective and still been one
of a kind.
Anyway, if you do the math,
Nething’s been here for 22 sessions. Here’s to No. 23!

Fiscalicious
Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D.,
along with two other members
of Congress will receive the 2011
“Fiscy” award to “honor elected
officials for their fiscal leadership and to discuss existing fiscal challenges and proposed
solutions.”
Plus, they’re called the Fiscys.
Conrad got the reward for his
work as chairman of the Budget
Committee and as a member of
the bipartisan fiscal commission
started by President Barack
Obama.

Freshmen
This week also was a big week
for the two newest members of
North Dakota’s congressional
delegation.
No longer will they be
referred to as senator- and representative-elect. Both Sen. John
Hoeven and Rep. Rick Berg were
sworn in on Wednesday.
Both are working out of temporary office space, but some
things are becoming permanent.
Berg was recently assigned to
three subcommittees on the
powerful Ways and Means Committee. He’ll be on subcommittees for Select Revenue Measures, Human Resources and
Social Security.
Hoeven is set to be on the
Appropriations Committee and
Energy Committee, but he won’t
be getting his third committee
assignment until later.

Always quotable
Sen. Curtis Olafson, R-Edinburg, to Jeff Nelson of the Legislative Council as he explains
Senate Bill 2051, which gives
harsher penalties for acts that
victimize those protected under
hate crimes statutes:
“What if someone punched
me in the nose because ‘That
Sen. Olafson is a loud obnoxious
jerk, and I don’t like him?’ Would
that be considered a hate
crime?”
“No, because ‘loud, obnoxious jerks’ are not a protected
class.”
“Well, that gives me great
comfort.”
(Reach reporter Rebecca
Beitsch at 250-8255 or 223-8482
or rebecca.beitsch@bismarcktribune.com.)

TOM STROMME/Tribune

READY TO AUDITION: Bismarck High seniors Shaillyn Wolf, right, and Ashley Dockter rehearse prior
to a jazz saxophone audition on Friday afternoon at Bismarck State College, where the annual All
State Music Auditions were held for area high school musicians. The auditions continue on the BSC
campus on Monday, when an additional 700 students from around the state will try out.

Closed roads take
a toll on truckers

The kickoff week of the 80-day
legislative session is known for
going a little slower than the following ones, heavy on speeches
and reports from different
branches of government and
agencies.
Still, hearings were held on a
number of bills.
■ Senate bills 2051 and 2052
caught a snag in the Senate Judiciary Committee after a number
of religious organizations objected to the inclusion of sexual orientation in the bills designed to
protect
certain
classes of
people
from hate
speech,
e i t h e r
against
them or
property.
Various
religious
groups said
certain
interpretations of the law could
affect their own freedom of
speech. The bills attempt to
address the vandalism on several
pieces of Native American art
along the Missouri River.
■ Senate bills 2048 and 2050
received strong opposition from
city officials, developers and the
League of Cities. They tighten
regulations on tax beneficial
development tools known as tax
increment finance districts and
Renaissance zones.
■ In a presentation to the
House Appropriations Committee, the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute has pegged
the cost of roadwork in the West
in the range of $900 million to
$1.3 billion over 20 years. The
Department of Transportation is
asking for about $600 million is
state funding for the 2011-13
biennium.
Continued on 6B

MAPPING THE BAKKEN

Increased expenses, lost revenue
By KAY KEMMET
Bismarck Tribune
The last days of 2010 brought
closings of North Dakota’s major
roads: Interstate 94 from Bismarck
to Fargo and Interstate 29 from
Canada to South Dakota.
While the weather doesn’t
affect the overall commerce of Bismarck much, it does affect some
individual business owners such
as daily trucking companies.
“For trucking companies, their
expenses don’t stop when the
roads closed,” said Tom Balzer,
North Dakota Motor Carriers
Association executive vice president. “The impact of that lost revenue is pretty significant.”
Those expenses include lodging and food for truckers and lost
revenue for delayed shipments.
“The catch-up revenue never
seems to fill the revenue that was
lost,” said Marlin Kling, president
of Midwest Motor Express.
During last week’s snow storm,

the Department of Transportation
began closing down the roads on
Thursday with I-94 from
Jamestown to Fargo and I-29 from
Grand Forks to the South Dakota
border. On Friday night, I-94 from
Bismarck to Jamestown, I-29 from
Grand Forks to the Canadian border and U.S. Highway 2 also were
closed.
All the roads didn’t reopen until
Sunday morning.
DOT spokesperson Jamie
Olson said the roads couldn’t be
opened until they were cleared of
snow, ice and abandoned vehicles.
Truck drivers can’t drive extra
hours to make up the lost time,
Kling said.
“The revenue you lose can
never be caught up in the following days,” he said.
The Bismarck-based trucking
company has more than 5,000
shipments on the road across the
Midwest each day, Kling said. At
least one part of their route usualContinued on 6B

MIKE McCLEARY/Tribune

PRESENTATION: Rep. Matthew Klein, R-Minot, left, and Rep.
David Monson, R-Osnabrock, examine a Bakken oil field drillingspacing and well spot map to aid in a presentation by Lynn
Helms, of the Department of Mineral Resources, to the House
Appropriations Committee on Friday in Bismarck.

Dakota

Page 2B ■ Saturday, January 8, 2011

Suspect held in researcher’s death
COOPERSTOWN (AP) — Authorities said a felony murder charge has been filed against Daniel Evan Wacht in the
death of North Dakota State University researcher Kurt
Johnson.
The 30-year-old Wacht had been arrested earlier in the
week on a probation violation from California.
Griggs County authorities said at a press conference Friday that Johnson’s head was found in the basement of
Wacht’s home in Cooperstown. Authorities said he had been
shot and his body had not yet been found.
The 54-year-old Johnson worked out of his Cooperstown
home. He was last seen leaving a Cooperstown bar on New
Year’s Eve and was reported missing on Tuesday.

Sheriff: Emergency landing was OK
JAMESTOWN (AP) — Stutsman County Sheriff Chad
Kaiser says an Oregon pilot did the right thing when he landed his small plane on an Interstate 94 exit ramp in North
Dakota.
Patrick William of Salem, Ore., was forced out of the air by
poor visibility Thursday while flying his newly purchased
1941 Taylorcraft two-seater from Minneapolis to Oregon. He
said that “flying is like driving a car. Sometimes you have to
stop and wait for the weather to improve.”
Kaiser saids local authorities notified the Federal Aviation
Administration and the agency said there was no problem
with the emergency landing.
William said he’s a little surprised by all the attention. He
said that with the weather North Dakota is known for, he’s
surprised there aren’t more such incidents.

Courtroom plays host to kangaroo
GRAND FORKS (AP) — North Dakota District Judge Joel
Medd doesn’t run a kangaroo court, but he runs one that
briefly played host to one of the marsupials.
A petting zoo operator attended her husband’s hearing in
Grand Forks on Thursday and brought her baby kangaroo
with. The animal weighs about 5 pounds and gets carried in
a pouch.
Medd says he’s an animal lover and the kangaroo wasn’t
a distraction. He says in his 35 years on the bench, he’s dealt
with a lot worse, from screaming babies to screaming people.
Medd says years ago, a man upset with one of his rulings
dressed up in a kangaroo outfit to protest. He says it’s ironic
that an actual kangaroo showed up in his courtroom.

More Devils Lake observers wanted
DEVILS LAKE (AP) — The National Weather Service is
seeking volunteer weather observers in the Devils Lake
region to help climatologists fine-tune summer flood forecasts.
Early forecasts say there is an equal chance the lake will
rise 2½ feet higher than the record level of 1,452.1 feet above
sea level reached last June. The weather service says more
precipitation reports from volunteers could help to make
more precise predictions.
Hydrologist Mike Lukes says that weather service and
state officials plan to measure snow depth and moisture
content in the basin next week to prepare for the next spring
flood outlook that’s to be released in late January.
Devils Lake has risen nearly 30 feet and quadrupled in
size since 1993 because of a series of wet years.

Hess plans $5.6B in capital spending
By DAVID KOENIG
AP Business Writer

AG: Bowdon City Council violated law
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has ordered the City
Council in the central North Dakota town of Bowdon to provide minutes of meetings he says violated the state’s open
meetings law.
Stenehjem says a special council meeting in June held
before a regularly scheduled meeting was not advertised,
and a special meeting in August was advertised with the
wrong date.
The attorney general says a third council meeting, in
June, that also was in dispute did not violate the law because
a quorum of the council was not present.
— Associated Press

Canola plant planned for Minot
MINOT (AP) — A Canadian company plans to begin
building a canola processing plant in Minot, after a study
found the project likely would succeed.
Toronto-based BioExx Specialty Proteins will process
about 88,000 tons of canola oilseeds each year into protein
products used by the food industry.
Chief Financial Officer Chris Schnarr says the company
will begin preparing the site in the spring. Plans are to have
the plant operating by the middle of next year. The project
cost earlier was estimated at about $50 million.

Pedestrian hit by car in Dickinson
DICKINSON (AP) — A 20-year-old Dickinson woman is
facing drug-related charges after allegedly striking a pedestrian with her car on a city street.
The Highway Patrol says the woman was arrested Thursday afternoon on suspicion of aggravated reckless driving,
driving under the influence of drugs and possessing marijuana.
The 62-year-old Belfield man who was struck was taken
to a Bismarck hospital with unspecified injuries.

between a rock and a hard
place,” said Fadel Gheit, an
analyst with Oppenheimer
& Co.
Much of Hess’ production spending will be in the
U.S., especially oil fields in
North Dakota that the company acquired last year.
The company plans to
expand production facilities
and use 15 rigs to drill in the
Bakken oil shale fields in
North Dakota.

IMPOUNDED ANIMALS
If you are missing a pet or
are interested in adopting a
pet, go online to www.bismarck.org/city_departments, click on police
department then click on
impounded animals. For
more information, call 2231212 or 222-6734.

SEX OFFENDER
LOCATION INFORMATION
For information about
the locations of sex offenders in the community, visit
www.sexoffender.nd.gov.
The website contains data
bases of sex offenders and
offenders against children,
as well as an e-mail notification system in which the
public can be notified every
time an offender in the area
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RAY (AP) — Authorities have identified a man who died
in a crash north of Ray, in northwest North Dakota.
The Highway Patrol says 59-year-old Perry Larson of Ray
died when his car rolled into the ditch on a county road
Wednesday night.
Larson was pronounced dead at a Tioga hospital.

Some Mandan High School service clubs will host a “Buddies for the Holidays” party for the residents of HIT from
6 to 9 p.m. on Monday.
The Mandan High FCCLA, DECA, FBLA, FFA, Skills USA,
SADD and Student Council will decorate the Mandan Eagles
Club and provide a DJ and door prizes.

Energy company capitalspending plans are influenced heavily by whether
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than a third of the total will
be spent on so-called
unconventional oil projects.
In July, Hess had said it
expected 2010 capital
spending to finish at
$5.5 billion.

Hess Corp. says it will
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of Africa and continuing
heavy investment in North
Dakota oil fields that it
bought last year.
The New York-based
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plans to spend $3.1 billion

Teacher gets probation for thefts
MINOT (AP) — A former Turtle Mountain Community
College teacher accused of stealing laptop computers has
been sentenced to two years of probation.
Martin Henry of Rolla pleaded guilty in federal court to
larceny. Authorities say he took 17 laptops and computer
repair kits while working as a part-time instructor in the Belcourt college’s technology department in 2009.
The 47-year-old Henry says in court documents that he
pawned the computers to support a prescription drug habit
and has since completed a successful treatment program.
He says the computers were returned to the school.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland ordered Henry to pay
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1. BEDDING not wedding. “Before getting
married,” the wedding is something a woman
generally thinks about a lot, rather than
something to which “some thought” is
“given.” This phrase links up better with
BEDDING, which “should be thought” about,
especially if the couple is setting up a new
home together.

4. WISE not rise. If your “advice” is “always
good,” you will already be ranked high in their
estimation,” making rise superfluous.
6. MEAL not zeal. A “MEAL can help give a
necessary boost.” Zeal is, in itself, a “boost.”
7. SWELL not smell. The SWELL of the
waves links up directly with the clue word
“fisherman.” Smell is too vague and could
refer to many odors that ordinary people
might experience that are not directly linked
to “a fisherman,” such as pollution, for example.
12. RANT not cant. “Sanctimonious” is
redundant in regards to cant (defined as:
“pious platitudes”). RANT is apt.
13. CRASH not trash. “Reading” material
that is considered trash is usually in reference
to material such as celebrity gossip, which
may be mindless to some but hardly stressful. However, “reading” about a violent
CRASH may well be disturbing and therefore,
wise to “avoid.”
15. DOVE not dive. You could “get a photograph of a DOVE,” although it might be “difficult,” under certain circumstances. One can
hardly take a still “photo” of a complete dive;

instead, it would be one phase of the dive.
18. LITTER not letter. The clue is unfinished
in regards to letter; for instance, why would
one specific “letter be overlooked”?
Wrapping paper (e.g., LITTER) is frequently
strewn about in the often-chaotic time when
presents are being opened, and it might well
“be overlooked.”
DOWN
1. DANCER not danger. “Danger, if great,”
would likely “cause a strong” physical as well
as “emotional reaction.” A DANCER “could
cause” some audience members to “react
emotionally.”
3. NAVE not name. “Upon first” seeing a
familiar “childhood sight” (i.e., the “church’s
NAVE”) may well bring on feelings of “nostalgia.” But simply seeing the “church’s name”
might not necessarily be an “overwhelming”
experience, especially if she has seen the
name in print or on the Internet, previous to
“her return” visit.
5. SILVER not salver. SILVER embraces a
whole range of antique pieces that might
possibly “interest a collector.” An “old salver”

(e.g., tray) could be made of brass or tin, rendering it fairly worthless to “a collector.”
7. SCALDS not scolds. A person can “accidentally SCALD” someone, but if one scolds
another, it is usually intentional.
8. LEAR not lead. The clue word “actor”
matches up well with the masculine “role” of
King LEAR. A lead “role” could be “well performed” by a male or female.
9. BIT not fit. The “applicant” might “hide”
the fact “she suffers from” a “minor BIT of
depression” but since a fit is defined as an
acute attack, “minor” is inappropriate.
14. RAGE not race. To fly into a RAGE certainly “can be bad for the heart.” As for race,
this would depend on whether you’re taking
part in it or just watching the event.
16. VEIL not veal. Usually it’s a “woman”
who “orders” a “wedding VEIL.” But a man
might “order” or at least have a lot of say (i.e.,
being “picky”) in what meat, such as veal, is
appropriate to serve at the “wedding.”
17. BEST not test. Grammatically speaking,
a “film test” would be submitted to the “production company,” not the reverse. BEST is a
good fit.

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Readers comment on student who rubs herself
Dear Annie: This is for “Concerned Teacher,” whose 9-year-old
pupil rubs herself against her seat
all day long. I am a school psychologist. If sexual abuse has been
ruled out, she should simply treat it
like any other publicly unacceptable behavior, the same way you
would treat a child picking his nose
in class.
However, kids often engage in
self-pleasure when anxious. So the
first step should be to track the
behavior and see if it happens
when certain subjects are taught.
The teacher and parents should
talk to the child about a signal to let
her know when she is doing it
because she may not be aware of it
at the time. Another point is to
make sure she doesn’t have a learning or cognitive disability. Students
with mild cognitive disabilities
sometimes do not understand the
social inappropriateness of this
behavior. — A School Psych

ANNIE’S
MAILBOX

Dear School Psych: Thank you
for your expertise. We are grateful
for the many readers who weighed
in on this, most mentioning that
the problem may not be masturbation at all. Read on:
From California: I spent much
of second grade doing the same
thing. The cause was a chronic lowgrade yeast infection that made me
constantly itchy. The rubbing
made it feel better but caused
inflammation, and it was a long
time until I was treated properly
and the behavior went away. Yeast
infections can be triggered by

BRIDGE

Infections and/or exposure to
allergens can come and go, even
over several years. A child may say
nothing to her parents because she
may not realize her symptoms are
not normal, and she may have
become accustomed to them.
Texas: We had the same situation with a pupil at our school. The
girl’s third grade teacher came up
with a solution. She met with the
student and her mother, and
found a simple gesture the teacher
could use to signal the student
when the behavior was happening. In this case, the teacher
tapped her own chin with her finger. It was so subtle, no one else
was even aware of it, but the student knew to stop the behavior.
When the child entered my fourth
grade class, this information was
passed on to me, and I only had to
signal her once.
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: My daughter had chronic urinary tract infec-

tions that itched terribly. At that
age, she may not be cleaning herself properly after using the bathroom. Antibiotics should clear it
up.
Florida: In special education,
some of our students do not fully
understand how to be appropriate
in public. We explain, privately,
what we want and then, in the
classroom, remind her to “sit up”
when she reverts to her “comfortable” position. It is not humiliating
to be reminded to sit up. With boys
who use their hands under the
desk, we ask them to put their
hands up on the table. This is done
matter-of-factly, without any classroom disruption.
(Annie’s Mailbox is written by
Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar,
longtime editors of the Ann Landers
column. E-mail questions to
anniesmailbox@comcast.net or
write to Annie’s Mailbox, P.O. Box
118190, Chicago, Ill. 60611.)

Chronic cough usually benign

By PHILLIP ALDER
This deal occurred during
a semifinal of last year’s
Canadian National Team
C h a m p i o n s h i p. It w a s
defended perfectly by Piotr
Klimowicz (West) and Gordon Campbell (East).
Both Souths were in five
clubs, the contract not being
doubled at the other table.
(In this auction, three diamonds was a help-suit
game-try, which West was
happy to accept with his
maximum single raise and
good diamond holding.)
In the other room, West
led a spade, East winning
and shifting to a diamond.
South won with dummy’s
ace and had the communications to ruff two spades in
the dummy and twice to lead
hearts through West. Declarer lost only one spade and
one heart.
Klimowicz did better,
leading a trump. (When your
opponents sacrifice at a high
level, a trump lead is almost
always best.)
South won in his hand
and played a heart. West did
well again, ducking. (Notice
that if West had grabbed his
ace, declarer could have got
home by establishing a long
diamond in the dummy
using those heart winners as
entries.
Also, he would have to
unblock his heart 10 under
dummy’s king, then, later,

undetected food sensitivities and
often go undiagnosed in both boys
and girls. The resultant itching
(and other people’s reactions) can
cause lasting emotional anxiety.
New York: Years ago, my little
sister used to do the same thing.
Our family doctor discovered that
she had pinworms. Our entire family had to be treated, and our mother boiled all our sheets and undergarments to kill the pinworm eggs.
Danbury, Conn.: That child
should be examined by a dermatologist for a possible skin condition such as lichen simplex chronicus or lichen sclerosus. These are
not uncommon in the genital
region and can be treated with topical medications such as cortisone
creams.
Ohio: The girl may have an
infection or allergic reaction (from
soap, bubble baths, laundry detergents, certain foods, etc.) that is
causing itching or discomfort.

play a heart to dummy’s
eight. The curious may work
out the exact sequence.)
After winning with
dummy’s heart king, South
called for the spade three.
Now it was Campbell’s turn
to shine — he played low.
This permitted his partner to
win the trick and lead a second trump, killing the contract.
Declarer had to lose two
aces and either a second
heart or a second spade.

DEAR DR. GOTT: I am a
19-year-old female and
have had a nonproductive
cough for 16 months without any other symptoms
other than some slight
drainage down the back of
my throat. I have kept food
and cough diaries and cannot find anything that triggers it. I cough when I sit,
stand, laugh, after strenuous exercise and around
smoke; it seems that I cough
all the time.
I have seen my family
physician, a nurse practitioner, an ENT, his PA, a pulmonologist and his PA. I
have been diagnosed with
bronchitis, hiatal hernia,
asthma and heartburn.
None of the medication
given for these diagnoses
has worked. I’ve been on
Symbicort, Spiriva, codeine,
Prilosec, Zantac and one
other that I can’t remember
the name of. I had to take it
for five days for what they
thought was bronchitis. I
had a chest X-ray done in
July 2009 without abnormalities. There is nothing
wrong with my vocal
chords, either.
At my last visit to the pulmonologist, I was told that I
have irritated bronchitis
and that I would have it for
the rest of my life unless it
miraculously went away.
There is no treatment for it.

DR.
PETER
GOTT

I cannot accept this diagnosis. This cough is truly
annoying. I work at an elementary school and am currently attending nursing
school. Coughing all the
time makes people believe
that I am sick, and nobody
wants a nurse who is coughing constantly in a hospital.
I am sure that you can
understand my predicament. I am out of options. I
don’t know what else to do
or who else to see.
Within the past two
weeks, I have noticed that I
have all of a sudden been
getting heartburn. No acid
comes up in my throat, and
it usually never lasts for
more than a few seconds,
but it is a new symptom.
Doctors have asked me in
the past if I have had heartburn, but I never have up
until now. Please help me,
Dr. Gott.
DEAR READER: Chronic
cough can have many causes; most are benign. Up to
90 percent of all cases are
caused by postnasal drip,

acid reflux or asthma.
Postnasal drip is a common condition in which the
sinuses drain down the back
of the throat rather than
from the nostrils. This can
be associated with colds, the
flu and various allergies. I
suggest that you take a look
at your environment to
determine if there is something that may be causing
this. Did you get a new pet or
move? Did you start wearing
a new perfume or using a
new scented soap or shampoo? Did you begin using a
new laundry detergent or
fabric softener?
You may want to talk to
your physician about a trial
course of an allergy medication. Over-the-counter
options include Claritin,
Zyrtec, Benadryl and various
store brands with the same
active ingredients. Prescription options include
Nasonex, Flonase, Clarinex
and more. These should dry
up the drip and, if it is the
cause, the cough as well.
I am hesitant to believe
that you have acid reflux or
asthma because treatment
failed to improve your
cough; however, they may
still be the culprits. Acid
reflux can be helped
through changes in diet as
well as physical activity.
Limit your intake of fatty,
greasy foods, high-acid

foods and spicy foods. You
may not have typical symptoms. Asthma may require
daily preventive therapy
such as a steroid inhaler in
addition to a rescue inhaler
for emergencies.
Your new symptom of
heartburn may be related to
acid reflux, but it may also
simply be the result of your
constant coughing.
Other possible, yet
unlikely, causes include
infection, lung disorders or
cancers, and various medications. I urge you to
undergo another chest
X-ray, since it has been more
than a year since your last.
Your pulmonologist can
then compare the two films
to determine whether there
are changes that might indicate a more insidious cause.
If you are uncomfortable
with your current physicians and their assistants,
start fresh with another lung
specialist or primary-care
physician.Express your concerns about the cough, and
be sure to bring all your
medical records with you.
The new physician can offer
a new perspective and
insight into your situation
and may find something
that the others missed.
(Readers can write to Dr.
Gott in care of United Media,
200 Madison Ave., fourth
floor, New York, N.Y. 10016.)

respect, and it’s not good for
your self-respect, either. Put
your own agenda first.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). Instead of deciding
to make fewer mistakes, try
making more of them, if only
for a day. This is how you can
be sure you’re living large
enough and trying for big
enough goals.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). A leader who is too soft

won’t help you. That’s why
you’ll venture toward the
tough trainer who will tell
you the truth.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). No one can keep you
from feeling attractive,
effective, powerful and
appreciated unless you
agree to let them. You have
options that you are not
exercising, and it’s about
time you did.

HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY
By HOLIDAY MATHIS
ARIES (March 21-April
19). Give yourself a mental
pep talk. Psych yourself up in
the mirror or in a journal.
These practices might feel
odd, but do them anyway.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20). In order to do all you
want to do, you will need to
acquire a few new resources.
Enlist the help of the good
people around you. You are
most convincing in the afternoon.
GEMINI (May 21-June
21). Your day is full, and your
energy surges to match the
demand. You command

your space and attract attention for all the right reasons.
CANCER (June 22-July
22). Keep track of your good
deeds on paper. This is not so
you can keep tabs on what
others owe you. Rather, it’s so
you can look back at your list
and feel an increased sense
of self-esteem
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
Every year, you get better.
Consider where you were at
this time last year. You didn’t
have the sense of purpose
you now possess, and you’re
more aware and effective
than ever. Let yourself feel
proud.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

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what people think of you.
Because you are willing to
risk injury to your ego, you
will continue to expand your
sense of who you are and
what you are capable of
doing.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
The destination still seems
very far away. Each milestone
you reach deserves to be
acknowledged, but save the

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big celebration for when you
cross the finish line.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). It could be that you are
holding on too tight and
pushing too hard. Mentally
and physically step away
from the thing you want.
Come back to it next week.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). If you are too available to a certain someone,
you will lose this person’s

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Bismarck police arrest naked man

Prosecutors wait for homicide info
Prosecutors are waiting on DNA analysis from the state
crime laboratory in a Mandan homicide.
Xavier Thompson, 22, was killed and Steve Voegele, 25,
was injured outside a party at 200 Fifth Ave. N.E. at
2:05 a.m. Oct. 2. Both men had gunshot wounds. Police
believe the shooting was preceded by a dispute over the
whereabouts of an iPod that belonged to one of the owners of the home where the party was held.
Mandan police have turned over much of the investigation to the Morton County State’s Attorney’s office, but
the matter remains under investigation, Morton County
State’s Attorney Allen Koppy said.
He said he assumes the state crime laboratory is doing
a thorough job in analyzing materials from the crime
scene. He does not have a timetable for resolution in the
case.
“It could be a little bit yet,” he said.
— Jenny Michael

Dorgan: Teaching, more in future
Former North Dakota U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan says his
future includes college teaching, lecturing,
working with think tanks and helping to
write two novels.
Dorgan has written two nonfiction
books on trade and finance. He says he’s
writing a novel with another person and
hopes to publish it at year’s end. He calls it
an “eco-thriller” but he’s mum on details
and the name of his co-author.
Dorgan says he’ll lecture at Georgetown
and the University of North Dakota. He’ll
Dorgan
work at a think tank on energy issues and
serve as chairman of a new foundation to address the
problems of American Indian youth.
Dorgan represented North Dakota in the U.S. Senate
and House for 30 years. He didn’t seek re-election last year
and left the Senate this week.
— Associated Press

Dispute going to Fargo commission
FARGO (AP) — The Fargo City Commission will hear a
challenge to a site for a residential youth treatment and
education center during its Jan. 24 meeting.
Fargo planners earlier rejected the challenge by
landowner Fred Hector and Stanley Township, who say
city staff made errors in determining whether the center
was allowed in the area. Hector and the township have
appealed to the City Commission.
The Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch wants to build the
center on Fargo’s south side. The organization gave up on
another building site more than a year ago after considerable neighborhood protest.

Hwy. 83 crash victim identified
MINOT (AP) — Authorities have identified a Belcourt
woman killed in a pickup rollover on U.S. Highway 83.
The Highway Patrol says 71-year-old Lorraine Crissler
was driving the pickup when it went out of control on the
icy highway and crashed about 10 miles south of Minot
late Thursday morning.
The patrol says Crissler’s husband, John, was riding in
the pickup but was not hurt.

Anne Carlsen Center gets grant
The Anne Carlsen Center in Jamestown received a
$10,000 High Impact Grant from the Dakota Medical
Foundation Impact Institute.
The grant funds will be used to implement a multiplephase skill development program for the 14 directors and
20 supervisors at ACC. Individual and team assessments
will be purchased to help build the communication skills
and teamwork of this core management group. The program consists of one-on-one and group sessions as well as
practical application of the skills and techniques acquired
throughout.

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REPORT PRESENTATION: Francis Ziegler, center, director of the North Dakota
Department of Transportation, talks with Rep. Mark Dosch, R-Bismarck, after he
presented a report to the House Appropriations Committee on the department’s
transportation related projects and funding in Bismarck on Friday.

More hybrids — not cheaper
By EDWARD LOTTERMAN

such as disk drives with
fewer moving parts or
Despite a downturn in
ground crankshaft journals.
late 2009, sales of hybrid
It may be due to “learning
cars probably will grow, par- by doing” in manufacturing
ticularly as
processes themselves. It
fuel prices
may be due to economies of
seem on an
scale in factories that prouptrend
duce specific components
again. But
like disk drives, radiators,
growing own- engine blocks or flat-screen
ership of
monitors.
hybrids doesIncreasing cost industries
n’t necessarily are much less common.
mean the
Here, the driving force often
Lotterman costs of mak- is that as output grows, the
ing batteries
industry as a whole bids up
for them will get cheaper. In the price of a key input.
fact, it could result in what
When the first ethanol
economists call “an increas- plants were built, their coning cost industry.” It is an
sumption of corn was so
uncommon situation.
small that it did not affect
More often, changes in
national corn prices.
per-unit average cost come
But as total output of
as a result of a larger or
ethanol grew, that changed.
smaller production plant. If Now a growing industry is
average costs fall as a facto- driving up the price of the
ry gets bigger, economists
feedstock. Unless technolosay there are “economies of gy that permits using a new
scale.”
input like biomass is perThe opposite situation
fected, the increasing cost of
where unit costs rise as a fac- corn will limit the growth of
tory or company get bigger
overall ethanol production.
is “diseconomies of scale.”
The need for some key
These were common in Sovi- raw material, the output of
et industry when the Kremwhich is difficult to ramp up,
lin made a fetish of having
has provoked increasing
the world’s largest steel mill, cost in other industries.
truck factory or whatever.
During the battleship arms
And, considering the comrace prior to World War I, the
panies as a whole, GM and
inability to rapidly increase
IBM in the 1970s both prob- production of nickel, a key
ably were examples of disec- ingredient in steel alloys,
onomies of scale.
drove up the average cost of
The idea of an increasing the thousands of tons of
or decreasing cost industry
armor plate in each vessel.
is different. Here the quesSimilar bottlenecks with
tion is what happens to
chromium drove up the
prices as an entire industry, price of stainless steel manuperhaps comprising many
facturing as it moved from a
companies, gets larger or
highly specialized product
smaller.
made in small quantities to
Decreasing cost indusone with many high-volume
tries are common for a new applications. Platinum did
technology or product.
the same for catalytic conFrom 1900 to about 1935,
verters. The precious metal
automobile manufacturing
had been used as a catalyst
was a decreasing cost
in industrial processes for
industry — costs per car fell
as total national car production rose. The same has
been true for computers
over the past 30 years.
Decreasing costs for an
entire industry may stem
from improved technology
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decades, but never in the
quantities needed for 20 million or more automotive catalytic converters per year.
Lithium may pose similar challenges for electric
car batteries. The element
has had industrial uses for
years in everything from
pharmaceuticals to lubricating greases to torpedo
motors. But none of these
applications use more than
a fraction of what would be
needed if electric cars using
lithium-ion batteries
reached a significant share
of total output.
There are alternatives.
Most early hybrids used
nickel-metal-hydride batteries. But lithium-based
batteries have many advantages, including less weight.
The Chevy Volt has this type
of battery and other manufacturers are following.
If electric or hybrid cars
remain a novelty, there
won’t be a problem. But if
their popularity grows,
where the lithium will come
from becomes a question.
The element is plentiful in
several forms, but not easy
to separate. Brine from alkali salt lakes in the Andes of
Chile, Argentina and Bolivia
is the best source, but building the plants to extract and
purify lithium takes time.
Companies are hesitant
to make huge investments
before knowing just what
the demand will be. So if
sales of these cars take off,
lithium prices may rise rapidly and stay up for some
years as production of the
crucial raw material catches
up with demand for the
final product. This is a classic example of an increasing
cost industry.
(Economist Edward Lotterman teaches and writes
in St. Paul, Minn. Write him
at ed@edlotterman.com.)
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Bismarck police arrested a naked man at a south Bismarck hotel after he allegedly spit on an officer trying to
help him.
Leonard Murphy, 40, was charged Friday with Class A
misdemeanor contact by bodily fluids.
Bismarck Police Sgt. Mark Buschena said officers were
called to a south Bismarck hotel at 9:07 p.m. Thursday for
a report of a domestic between a husband and wife. The
couple from Bowman said they had been drinking and
would go to bed. Officers were called back to the hotel at
10:21 p.m. for a report of a man outside in the area of the
south Perkins wearing only a towel, Buschena said.
He said officers, ambulance personnel and firefighters
found the same man from the earlier domestic, identified
as Murphy, naked in a stairway at the hotel. The emergency workers attempted to assist the man, who resisted
efforts and had to be handcuffed, Buschena said. He said
the man used vulgarities and spit on an officer while they
were trying to tend to him, so he was arrested.
— Jenny Michael

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Seven-day forecast

The nation today

Today

Sunday

High
Low
today tonight Mostly cloudy and bitterly

10 -10

Noon

0

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

-20 -10

Friday

0

10

20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

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cold.

Morning

3

Wind (mph):
E, 5 to 15

Monday

Evening

-6

Wind (mph):
E, 5 to 15

5/-12

4/-7

3/-16

Bitterly cold
Raw
with light snow. temperatures,
overcast.

-3/-13
Frigid and
mostly cloudy.

Icy cold and
cloudy.

3/-2

2/-14

Continued very
cold.

More very cold
conditions with
snow.

Wind (mph): Wind (mph):
E, 5 to 15
E, 5 to 15

North Dakota facts and forecasts

Weather notebook
State forecast overview:
Once the blast of arctic air moves
in Saturday it will not be moving
out anytime soon. A strong cold
front will usher in the very cold
temperatures on Saturday. Most
of the snow Saturday will be in the
southwest, but it will spread east
on Sunday. It will stay bitterly cold
through at least Wednesday.

Today’s weather history
1953 - A severe icestorm in the
northeastern U.S. produced up to
four inches of ice in Pennsylvania,
and two to three inches in
southeastern New York State. In
southern New England the ice
coated a layer of snow up to 20
inches deep. The storm resulted in
31 deaths and 2.5 million dollars
damage. (David Ludlum)

Energy
Division
Continued from 1B
about how it will be an
advantage to developing
the energy industry. I’m
not sure some of us are
convinced yet,” Glassheim
said. “If all it is is a cheerleading division, then I
don’t think we need it
because everybody knows
development is happening and that brings significant economic gains.”
Rep. Bob Martinson,
R-Bismarck, said he and
others are concerned with
the price tag and adding
two more employees to
the state’s payroll.
“I get the impression
the feeling around here is
that it’s going to be a tough
sell. I’m not sure most people see the need for it,”
Martinson said.
“I just don’t think we
need someone to say, ‘Hey,
you should come drill for
oil in North Dakota,’” Martinson added later.
Govig said he thinks it’s
proper for legislators to
take a skeptical look at
new agencies or divisions,
but he sees the coordination aspect of the division
as a selling point.
“We’re not proposing to
take anything away from
anybody. It’s beneficial to
commerce in that we’re a
promotional agency, not
regulatory. We’re here to
promote and enhance,”
Govig said.
(Reach reporter Rebecca
Beitsch at 250-8255 or 2238482 or rebecca.beitsch@
bismarcktribune.com.)

This
week
Continued from 1B
■ Gov. Jack Dalrymple’s
proposed Energy Division
in the Department of
C o m m e rc e h a s b e e n
called a tough sell on both
sides of the aisle. Many
legislators have questioned whether the idea
will grow government
without doing much to
change the status quo.
(Reach reporter Rebecca
Beitsch at 250-8255 or 2238482 or rebecca.beitsch@
bismarcktribune.com.)

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A Bismarck Police Department patrol car. This car model may be made into a diecast toy.
unaware if it was done by the
same company. He said he’s
not sure where the car would
be sold locally, since everything is in preliminary stages
right now. He said the company distributes such toys
nationally but does tend to
focus such specialties in
local markets.
“They were pretty cool
the last time somebody did

it,” he said, noting that they
“seemed to go fast” in local
stores.
According to the GreenLight Collectibles’ website,
the company included a
North Dakota Highway
Patrol 2008 Dodge Charger
in a previous edition of its
“Hot Pursuit” series of law
enforcement vehicles.
“I believe it provides a

means of positive public
relations for the police
department and also provides our employees with an
opportunity to purchase a
replica of our squad cars,
which many take advantage
of,” Witt wrote.
(Reach reporter Jenny
Michael at 250-8225 or
jenny.michael@bismarcktribune.com.)

Lincoln works liquor penalties
By LEANN ECKROTH
Bismarck Tribune
“We’re not going to be
North Dakota’s underage
drinking capital,” said Lincoln City Council member
Reed Unterseher.
Frustrated by repeated
failure of alcohol compliance checks in town, this
week the council passed the
first reading of a draft ordinance that penalizes businesses that sell alcohol to
minors with scaled fines and
liquor license suspensions.
Council members decided a third underage sale in a
year can shutter the business
up to 30 days and mean a
$1,500 fine, or pull the liquor
license permanently.
Cody Harrington, manager of the Tumbleweed Bar
and Grill, found an earlier
draft that called for an automatic seven-day suspension
of a liquor license too
extreme for a second offense.

Harrington said Lincoln’s
record of failing alcohol
compliance checks is a problem and is embarrassing to
the city and its businesses.
During alcohol compliance
checks, minors attempt to
buy alcohol from a business
under the supervision of the
Burleigh County Sheriff’s
Office.
“I don’t agree with the revocation of our liquor license
over something that is in the
hands of our waitress. I
understand there has to be
some penalties, but taking
our liquor license away for a
week — that would kill us,”
Harrington said.
An automatic 30-day revocation for a third offense, as
outlined in the draft law,
would close them, he said.
Police Chief Jon Hale suggested he run his own own
compliance checks to weed
out workers who serve
minors as some businesses
in town do. He said staff

BPD squad car ... in toy form?
While Bismarck police
officers may not have their
own action figures, their cars
soon may be available as diecast toys for collectors and
kids.
Chief Keith Witt has asked
the Bismarck City Commission to consider allowing
GreenLight Collectibles to
make a 1:64 model of a Bismarck Police Department
Crown Victoria squad car.
The item is on the consent
agenda for Tuesday’s commission meeting.
According to a letter from
Witt to Assistant City Administrator Keith Hunke, letting
the company replicate the
squad car would be of no cost
to the city. GreenLight Collectibles, an Indianapolis toy
company, would create the
necessary graphics for the
replica using a digital photograph of one of the cars. A
1:64 replica is the size of a Hot
Wheels or Matchbox car and
is about 3 inches long.
Witt wrote in the letter
that a similar toy replica of a
Bismarck police car was created approximately eight
ye a r s a g o, b u t h e w a s

could be added on busier
days to card all customers.
Harrington said penalties
should be geared toward the
worker committing the
crime. Council members
reminded him his business
holds the license, not the
workers.
City Attorney Ariston
Johnson said Lincoln needs
more definite penalties so it
is consistent when future
offenses occur.
Council members agreed
the ordinance should apply
for both an officer’s patrol or
compliance check.
Council members said
penalties should be acted on
if the police chief finds probable cause that an illegal sale
occurred. A hearing can held
to ask a fine be reimbursed.
Council member Steve
Urlacher said fines will be
automatic, but the council
decides how long a license is
revoked depending upon
circumstances of the offense

and what actions a business
took to train workers before
a violation. The offenses are
counted during the year a
liquor license is issued.
If the police chief determines there is probable
cause, the draft liquor law
now allows:
■ Automatic $500 fine
and required training for a
first offense.
■ $1,000 fine for a second
offense. It requires public
hearing with the city council; it can suspend a liquor
license for up to seven days.
■ $1,500 fine for a third
offense. The council can
decide to suspend the
license for up to 30 days.
Council members may
decide to revoke the license
completely at this phase.
Final approval of the
liquor ordinance will be considered in February.
(Reach reporter LeAnn Eckroth at 250-8264 or leann.eckroth@bismarcktribune.com.)

U.S. rig count up
by 6 this week
HOUSTON (AP) — The
number of rigs actively
exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased
by six this week to 1,700.
Houston-based Baker
Hughes Inc. on Friday
reported that 914 rigs were
exploring for gas and
777 for oil. Nine were listed
as miscellaneous.
A year ago, the count
was 1,220.
Of the major oil- and
gas-producing states, Colorado and Oklahoma each
gained four rigs, Texas and
Wy o m i n g a d d e d t w o
apiece and North Dakota
gained one.
Louisiana lost eight rigs;
Alaska and West Virginia
each lost one. Rig counts in
Arkansas, California, New
Mexico and Pennsylvania
were unchanged.
The rig count peaked at
4,530 in 1981, the height of
the oil boom. The record
low of 488 was in 1999.

Closed
roads
Continued from 1B
ly has some weather problem.
“If you are going to
truck in the northern part
of the United States, it’s
going to happen,” Balzer
said.
While the closed-down
roads affect trucking companies, it doesn’t have a
significant affect on overall
Bismarck commerce, said
Brian Ritter, the BismarckMandan Development
Association’s director of
business development.
“I don’t know that the
interstate being closed for
a few days is really going to
hurt us that bad,” Ritter
said.
But it does limit the
traffic going through Bismarck-Mandan. The
closed roads most likely
affect taxable sales and
retail the most, Ritter said.
But in North Dakota,
Kling said closed roads
have larger implications
because many of their
shipments are time-sensitive. A closed road could
mean that a remote factory doesn’t get a part they
need and are forced to
shut down, Kling said.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 2011
A man walks
into a bar ...
to preach
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Band performs at
Wilton Jan. 16
The Hungry Five Band will perform
old-time music at 7 p.m. Jan. 16 at
First Presbyterian Church of Wilton.
A free will offering will be taken.
Refreshments will be served following
the program.

March for Life
set for Jan. 16
Bismarck-Mandan Right to Life is
sponsoring its annual March for Life
on the State Capitol steps at 1 p.m.
Jan. 16.
The public is welcome to attend for
prayer and reflection on the Roe vs.
Wade Supreme Court abortion
decision of 1973.
Call 258-3811 or 258-5379 for
more information.

God’s Child at
Bobcats hockey Wed.
Patrick Atkinson, founder of The
God’s Child Project, will speak about
faith and service at 6 p.m.
Wednesday prior to the Bismarck
Bobcats hockey game at the VFW
Arena in Bismarck. A limited number
of discounted student tickets are
available for $3 to hear Atkinson
speak and to attend the game.
Season ticketholders and regular
admission ticketholders also will be
able to come early and hear Atkinson.
Tickets are $10.50 for adults and
$7.50 for youth.
The family night is sponsored by
McDonalds. Reserve tickets by calling
the Bismarck Bobcats at 222-3300.

Marriage seminar
planned Jan. 21-22
The seminar, “Laugh Your Way to a
Better Marriage,” is planned Jan. 21-22
at Bismarck Community Church.
Couples — married, single or
divorced — are welcome to attend the
sessions, hosted by pastor and
motivational speaker Mark Gungor.
“Laugh Your Way to a Better
Marriage” is designed to deal with
tough issues in a fun and
nonthreatening way, Gungor says. The
seminar does not use workbooks,
break-out sessions or ask participants
to speak in front of a group.
Hours are 7 to 10 p.m. Jan 21 and
9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. p.m. Jan. 22.
Doors open at 6:15 p.m. the first
evening and 8:30 a.m. the second day.
The cost is $40 per person or $79
per couple.
Bismarck Community Church is at
1617 E. Michigan Ave. For more
information or to register, call Bismarck
Community Church at 223-3304 or visit
www.bismarckcommunitychurch.com.

Healing service
planned Sunday
A healing service is planned at
6 p.m. Sunday at Cowboy Community
Church, 1051/2 Third Ave. N.W.,
Mandan. The public is welcome.
For more information, call 4005936.

UU announces
January schedule
The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
of Bismarck-Mandan has announced its
January schedule of topics.
Sunday: “Can Facebook Lead us to
Empathic Society?” by Tim Hathaway
and Karen Van Fossan, newly elected
members of the board of trustees.
Jan. 16: “One Woman’s Journey to
Judaism” by Hannah Balaban, who will
discuss a range of Jewish beliefs and
customs and her story of conversion
from Catholicism to Reform Judaism in
1986.
Jan. 23: “Freethinkers and the
Separation of Church and State,” by Jon
Lindgren, president of the Red River
Freethinkers of Fargo. Lindgren was
mayor of Fargo for 16 years.
Jan. 30: “Avoiding the Lowest
Common Denominator Trap,” by Don
Morrison, focusing on being in
community with each other. Morrison is
executive director of NDPeople.org and
the North Dakota Center for the Public
Good.
The UU Fellowship meets at 818 E.
Divide Ave., Bismarck. Programs start
at 11 a.m.
For more information, call 2236788.

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Good Shepherd pastors, the Revs. Craig Schweitzer, left, and Sara Akre, right, and church member Ilene Larson, center, hold an
anniversary quilt made by six of the church quilters that will be raffled in the near future. The quilt is called “Harvest of Blessing” and
was made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.

50 years of faith
Good Shepherd
celebrates its
50th anniversary
By KAREN HERZOG
Bismarck Tribune
Fifty years ago, when Good
Shepherd was planted by the
American Lutheran Church (now
part of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America), its location
was chosen because it was on the
north edge of Bismarck and there
was no Lutheran church in that
area of town.
Today, as Good Shepherd celebrates its 50th anniversary, Bismarck has galloped north, quadrupled in population, and the spot at
Washington Street and Divide
Avenue, just across the street from
the YMCA, is firmly in the heart of
town.
Ilene Larson, who leads the
coordinating committee for the
church’s 50th anniversary celebration, remembers when Divide
Avenue divided the town from the
empty prairie north of it. There
were 96 people at that first service,
which took place in a small chapel
on the same property in November
1960.
But 1960 was still in the thick of
the post-war baby boom and it
took no more than two months for
the congregation to be chartered in
January 1961, fed by the young
families living in starter homes in
the surrounding neighborhoods.
The present sanctuary was dedicated in 1967, with the newest
addition coming in 1995.
Good Shepherd still has a young
demographic, said the Rev. Craig
Schweitzer, a member of the
church’s pastoral staff. Its
median age is 38, nearly 20
years younger than the
57 that is the median
age for the ELCA
nationally, he
said. Congregation-

TOM STROMME/Tribune

A large stained glass window in the Lynne Center of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bismarck
depicts a scene reminiscent of the church’s name.
al membership is around 4,000,
about 1,700 households.
The Rev. Robert Lynne was
Good Shepherd’s longtime pastor
— 27 years — and is now a retired
bishop of the Western North Dakota ELCA Synod. Lynne, for whom
the church’s
Lynne
Center

is named, will preach Sunday
when Good Shepherd holds its allservices worship at the Bismarck
Civic Center, starting at 10:30 a.m.
This will be the church’s third
anniversary event.
In November, Lynne preached
at the first event and actually found
his first sermon from 50 years ago,
Schweitzer said. The focus of the
first celebration was on the past,
and the liturgy was taken
from the hymnal in use at
the time, he said.
The theme of
that sermon was
“mission and
ministry,”

which was always an emphasis of
Lynne’s, Larson said.
In December, a ministry fair
focused on the present time and its
needs, Schweitzer said.
The theme on Sunday will be
“Blessed to Be a Blessing,” and will
include elements from each of the
six different worship services in use
at Good Shepherd. Justin Binek will
premiere an anthem on Sunday
that he composed specifically for
Good Shepherd’s anniversary,
Schweitzer said.
Holding one inclusive service
on Sunday will allow all the different groups who attend Good Shepherd’s services to see each other,
Larson said.
Former pastors will return for
the celebration and participate in
it, including the Revs. Jeff Tengesdal, Marv Kormann and Laurie
Natwick. A dinner will be served
after the service, which will be the
only weekend service scheduled
for the church.
Six master quilters have put
together a quilt called “Harvest of
Blessings,” for which raffle tickets
have been sold since September,
Schweitzer said. Quilters were Evelyn Buchfink, chairwoman; Jane
Frank, Arlene Olson, Hilda Mae
Lindvig, Diane Stange and Cori
Quist.
(Reach reporter Karen Herzog at
250-8267 or karen.herzog@bismarcktribune.com.)

FAITH DIGEST
“Warmth Of Love” is the
Women’s Clubs
theme for the Brunch Group
which meets at 9:30 a.m. at
meet Thursday
the Bismarck Eagles Club,

All three meetings of the
Christian Women’s Clubs are
set for Thursday. Speaker at
each of the meetings is Judy
Pepple of Bismarck, whose
topic is “When Love Overflows.”

313 N. 26th St. The special
feature is by Lillian’s, presented by Susan Schwieters.
Music is by the Faithful Four
and the cost is $7. For reservations or cancellations, call
Gertie at 223-7127 by Jan. 11.

“Cozy January” is the
theme for the Mid Day Connection, which meets at
12:30 p.m. at the Municipal
Country Club, 930 N. Griffin
St. Pepple’s topic is “Handcrafted Winter Warmth.”
Music is by Colleen Reinhardt of Bismarck and the
cost is $8.
For reservations or cancel-

lations, call Jan at 222-8558 or
Freda at 391-5827 by Tuesday.
“It’s About Time” is the
theme for the After Five
Group. The special feature is
by Kristi Kraft and the cost is
$9.
For reservations and cancellations, call Rosemary at
255-2560 or Debbie at 2230401 by Jan. 11.

A man walks into a bar ... to preach
By PATRICK CONDON
Associated Press
TWO HARBORS, Minn.
— It was a Sunday during
Advent, and inside a small
pub a few blocks up from the
north shore of Lake Superior, 17 people gathered
around four bar-top tables
shoved into a ring.
Betsy Nelson, the bar’s
cook, lit two candles with a
cigarette lighter as Addison
Ho u l e s t ra p p e d o n a n
acoustic guitar and sang a
slightly off-key rendition of
“We Three Kings.” Curt
“Fish” Anderson sipped a
beer as TVs overhead flickered with NFL pregame
shows.
“Father, thank you for this
time we can share on Sunday morning with new
f r i e n d s,” p ra ye d C h r i s
Fletcher, an emergency
medical technician, parttime bartender and seminary student who has led
this service every Sunday
morning at Dunnigan’s Pub
& Grub since last summer.
“We’re getting to know you,
and getting to know each
other better.”
Spending Sunday mornings in a bar sounds like an
activity for those running
from God. For this small
group in a watering hole in
Tw i n H a r b o r s , a b o u t
160 miles northeast of Minneapolis, it’s about chasing
God. It’s one unconventional place of worship around
the country fostered by an
e v a n g e l i c a l m ov e m e n t
known as “the emerging
church.”
“I feel closer to God here
than I do at a conventional
church,” said Nelson, 56, a
lifelong churchgoer who
until recently could be
found every Sunday morning in the pews at First Baptist Church nearby. “Jesus
said we’re supposed to be a
light to the world. What better place to do that than at a
bar?”
After the opening prayer,
Fletcher read a brief passage
from the Bible before opening
the floor to a group discussion. Gene Shank, a 68-yearold retired police officer making his first visit after reading a
notice Fletcher put in the
local newspaper, confessed to
a bit of discomfort.
“I’m a reality person, and
I’m finding a little too much
established religion here to
be honest,” Shank said. “I
believe, I pray — but I don’t
like structured religion.”
Fletcher responded that,
while he wants to be as
informal as possible, the
main goal is still “creating an
open space for Jesus to come
into our lives, then he does
the transforming work.”
He quickly adds that anyone who questions the way
he’s running the service has
come to the right place.
“We’re all messed up,” he
said. “We’re all screwed up
some way.”
Fletcher, a stocky, balding
43-year-old with a bristly
goatee, is his own first example. The native of Sudbury,
Ontario, grew up in the
Worldwide Church of God, a
small evangelical sect he
described as “almost cultlike.” He left religion behind
as a young man, but was
drawn back as he was hitting
40 and experiencing a series
of personal crises: the death
of a close friend in an auto
accident and the dissolution
of his marriage.
Last spring, Fletcher was
accepted to Bethel Seminary
in St. Paul; he now commutes 150 miles south one
to two times a week for classes. Initially he intended to
incorporate work as a chaplain into his job working
with an ambulance crew, but
as he began his seminary
studies he found common
ground with a recent wave of
evangelical thinkers including Brian McLaren and

Associated Press

Chris Fletcher, right, leads a Sunday morning gathering known as “Bar Church” at
Dunnigan’s North Shore Pub & Grub in Two Harbors, Minn., on Dec. 5.
Shane Claiborne.
McLaren and Claiborne
have criticized some of
Christianity’s more conservative traditions as they try
to attract people disinterested in traditional Sunday
attendance — in particular,
younger people.
“I don’t feel welcome in a
regular church,” said Kayla
Edwards, 25, who has been
to most of Fletcher’s Sunday
gatherings. “A lot of churches, I feel judged. Here, I feel
welcome — it’s laid back,
you can say what you want
and no one will be disgusted.”
One Saturday night a few
months ago, Fletcher was
having a drink at Dunnigan’s

when a stranger approached
and asked to talk. She shared
some personal problems
and as Fletcher lent a sympathetic ear, and an idea was
born. Six months later, Sunday attendance at what
Fletcher calls “Bar Church”
(“For those who are thirsty”
reads a poster on the wall in
Dunnigan’s) has grown to as
many as 25 people.
Lately, Fletcher said,
strangers have regularly
been approaching him
around town in search of
guidance, or just someone
who will listen. “They’ll say,
‘you’re that bar pastor,’”
Fletcher said.
Fletcher wasn’t the first
student of the emerging

church to hold a weekly
service in a tavern, nightclub
or other such establishment.
Such gatherings have
popped up around the
country in recent years, as
well as “home churches”
that serve much the same
purpose. While it might
seem perverse, Fletcher said
he likes the message it sends
to worship Jesus in a place
where alcohol is served.
“I often find the people in
the bar are a lot more
authentic than people in the
church,” Fletcher said. “If
Jesus was in Two Harbors,
he’d want to be with the people in the bar. He’d probably
get kicked out of the
church.”

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Andy Kotelnicki is
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and dig in to the University of Mary football program. After all, there is a
lot of work to be done.
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new offensive coordinator. He succeeds Chris
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Continued on 4D

Willison State
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Century’s Meyer Bohn, left, and Mandan’s Taylor Hellman eye each other down in a 215-pound match Friday.

Bismarck holding slim lead on Sturgis
By STEVE THOMAS
Bismarck Tribune
A funny thing happened
on Bismarck’s romp to a
blowout triumph in the
Rotary Wrestling Tournament. It faded away.
Bismarck led by 39.5
points going into the final
round of Friday’s action at
the Civic Center.
But the Demons ended
the day with the hot breath
of Sturgis, S.D., on their
neck.
Sturgis, spurred by a perfect 5-0 showing in the semifinals, closed the gap to 168152.5 with a long way to go.
Rapid City, S.D., Stevens
with 123.5 points, Turtle
Mountain with 109.5 and
Rapid City Central with 98.5
complete the top five.

Action resumes today at 1
p.m. with two rounds of
wrestlebacks and the trophy
matches on the schedule.
The finals are slated for 3
p.m.
Only 215-pounder Clint
Wilson among Sturgis’ five
semifinal winners was seeded No. 1.
Yet Scoopers coach Steve
Keszler seemed only moderately surprised at the turn of
events.
“You’re never sure of anything,” Keszler said. “... I
thought we performed well
that last round. We went 8for-9, and the ninth one was
a heartbreaker. Hopefully
we’ll carry some of that
momentum into Saturday.”
In addition to the 5-0
effort in the semis, Sturgis
won three of four matches in

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Rotary wrestling
tournament —
Day 2: 1 p.m.
at Civic Center
the fourth round of wrestlebacks, which were running
concurrently.
Along with its five finalists, Sturgis has three men
alive in the wrestlebacks —
two No. 7 seeds and a No. 6
seed.
Bismarck will send 130pounder Ryan Blees, 145pounder Drew Spaulding
and 285-pounder Nick Nelson into today’s finals.
The Demons have seven
wrestlers going in the
wrestlebacks, including a
No. 2 seed, a No. 4, a No. 5, a
No. 7 and two No. 8s.

“We have three who lost
in the semifinals, so they’re
guaranteed sixth place,”
BHS co-coach Scott Knowlen said.
The task before the
Demons is to score enough
consolation points to blunt
the edge Sturgis has in the
finals.
“I like our potential. ...
We’ve got seven guys alive in
the bottom, but we also
know four of them weren’t
seeded or were seeded seventh or eighth,” Knowlen
said.
Knowlen is hoping his
wrestleback power turns on
the juice today.
“Some of them could
knock off people they may
have lost to a month ago,” he
said.
Continued on 4D

Williston State is hoping to expand its on-campus enrollment.
One of the best ways to
bring students on campus
is to add a couple of sports.
Williston State has made
the decision to expand by
adding women’s softball
and men’s ice hockey.
If WSC can raise the
funds, the two sports will
be added for the 2011-12
school year. If they need
longer to raise money, the
sports will start in 201213.
The costs of operating
the two new programs is
estimated at $180,000.
“Our on-campus
enrollment has been
dropping,”
WSC athletic director Hunter
Berg said.
“Athletics is
one way we
can get students into
coming to
o u r c a m - Berg
pus.”
The two sports could
bring in as many as 60 students to the Williston
State campus.
The decision to add
softball was an easy one
since most schools in the
Mon-Dak are offering the
sport. Plans are in the
works to build a softball
field next to Phil Rabon
Field.
Continued on 4D

Patriots stop Golus

Ready for big time

Century slows
down Bravette
when it matters

Rosenthal’s
‘NHL goal’ turns
out to be gamewinner for ’Cats

By MICHAEL WEBER
Bismarck Tribune
Century had a difficult
time trying to contain Turtle
Mountain standout Sasha
Golus through the first 28
minutes of Friday night’s
West Region girls basketball
game.
But shutting down the
5-foot-10 senior in the final
eight minutes helped keep
the top-ranked Patriots
unbeaten.
Golus had 31 points at the
8:02 mark of the second half,
but only three the rest of the
way as Century rallied for a
66-62 victory over the fifthranked Bravettes at Linette
Olson Gymnasium. Later,
the top-ranked Century boys
completed the sweep with a
81-61 victory.
After Golus scored her
30th and 31st points of the
game, Turtle Mountain led
54-50. However, Golus didn’t
score again until she made
the first of two free-throw
attempts with 1:05 remaining. That made it 63-60 Century. Golus’ next field goal

Century girls 66,
Turtle Mountain 62
Century boys 81,
Turtle Mountain 61
didn’t come until the :29
m a rk . T h a t p u l l e d t h e
Bravettes within 65-62.
“We made some defensive adjustments that
worked,” said Century coach
Ron Metz, whose team
improved to 7-0 overall and
5-0 in region play. “The
biggest thing was being
more aggressive on the help
side. We made sure we had
two girls on (Golus) at all
times. She’s a proven talent
… someone you really have
to game plan for. She was
outstanding for most of the
game, but we finished well
defensively.”
Golus, a first-team allstate selection last year, finished with 34 points, 18
rebounds, five blocks and
five steals.
For a time it appeared
that the Patriots would win
what was expected to be a

By LOU BABIARZ
Tribune Sports Editor

TOM STROMME/Tribune

Century’s Tyler Loraas puts up a shot over Turtle
Mountain’s Shaiyan Davis in West Region play Friday.
close game between two
unbeaten teams in a rout.
After a slow start, Century
rolled to a 14-point lead.
Hannah Jeske’s 3-pointer
with 3:37 remaining in the
first half made it 35-21.
But, the Bravettes closed
out the half on a 14-4 run,
with Golus scoring seven of
her 21 first-half points.
“That’s what good teams
will do. They’ll find a way to
get themselves back in it,”
Metz said. “We put together
a nice run to build that big
lead. The girls did such a nice
job executing in that stretch.
But give Turtle Mountain

credit. They stepped it up
defensively, and started executing on the offensive end.”
Turtle Mountain coach
D.J. McGillis said slow starts
are nothing new to his team.
“We’ve started slow in all
of our games. We were able
to overcome them the first
four games, but not tonight,”
he said. “We got ourselves in
a big hole, and it’s tough to
come back against a good
team. We managed to fight
back like we always do, but it
took a lot out of us. We didn’t
play very well late in the
game.”
Continued on 4D

Nikolaj Rosenthal
demurred when he heard
that coach Layne Sedevie
called his second goal Friday night “an NHL goal.”
Maybe a World Junior
Championship-caliber
goal?
Regardless, Rosenthal’s
one-timer was a beauty,
and it was the game-winner as the Bobcats came
from behind to beat the
Aberdeen Wings 3-1 for
their sixth straight victory.
Rosenthal, who played
for Denmark in the World
Junior Champoinship
Division I tournament last
month, made his return to
the Bobcat lineup a memorable one.
“It’s great to be back,”
Rosenthal said. “I don’t
think I could have had a
better game today. ... I’m
just glad we won.”
Rosenthal’s play was a
big reason why the Bobcats
kept on rolling, maintain-

Bobcats 3, Aberdeen 1
ing a share of first place in
the Central Division. After
spotting Aberdeen the first
goal, the Bobcats scored
three times in a span of
2:44, with Rosenthal netting his 10th and 11th of
the season.
“I think he’s a really special player,” Sedevie said.
T i m Tu s c h e r g a v e
Aberdeen the lead with the
only goal of the first period.
Aberdeen goalie Frederick Leisner turned aside
several strong chances for
Bismarck to protect that
lead, but once the Bobcats
got a bit of momentum,
they seized control.
Dan Zawacki, who kept
up his hot streak with two
assists, was the playmaker
on a Bismarck rush. Rosenthal finished the play, tying
the game at 12:13 of the
second.
“Zawacki made a very
good assist on that goal,”
Rosenthal said. “He made a
Continued on 4D

“I can feel the enthusiasm coursing through my veins right
now. I accept this competitive challenge willingly. I love
coaching and I love winning and I love football.” — Jim

How many straight years has a Southeastern
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Harbaugh, who is the new head coach of the San Francisco 49ers.

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Fighting Sioux pummel Robert Morris in hockey
GRAND FORKS (AP) —
North Dakota Aaron goalie
Dell made 32 saves and Corban Knight and Brock Nelson had two goals each as
the Fighting Sioux beat
Robert Morris 8-0 on Friday.
Knight added an assist to

finish with three points for
the second-ranked Sioux
(15-5-2). Both Knight’s goals
came in the first period for
North Dakota, which scored
three times in each of the
first two periods.
Jake Marto had a goal and

two assists. Also scoring for
UND were Brett Hextall,
Matt Frattin and Evan Trupp.
Frattin’s goal was his Western
Collegiate Hockey Leagueleading 19th goal.
Dell made 14 saves in the
second period.

Brooks Ostergard had 16
saves in the first period for
the Pioneers (12-6-2). He
had one in the second before
he was replaced by Eric
Levine, who made 13 stops.

Fighting Sioux men’s basketball team riddled with injuries
GRAND FORKS (AP) —
After the University of North
Dakota men’s basketball
team learned it had lost
starting forward Spencer
Goodman and reserve center Mitch Wilmer for the rest
of the season, coach Brian
Jones was asked if his front
line could get any thinner.
“Can we knock on wood?”
Jones responded.
That might be the only
solution remaining to keep
the Fighting Sioux healthy as
they prepare for the second
half of their season, which
begins Sunday with a home
game against Longwood
University of Virginia.
Goodman, a 6-foot-5

sophomore, will need surgery and nine months of
rehabilitation on his injured
shoulder. Wilmer, a 6-11
sophomore who had a
breakout game against
North Dakota State last
month, broke his wrist during the game and his return
isn’t expected until the last
week of the season.
“Starting the year, we had
a lot of bodies,” Jones said.
“Now, we’re very thin. It’s
crucial to keep the bodies
that are with us able to play.
And once January really hits,
it’s about keeping our bodies
fresh and our minds fresh.
It’s not so much the pounding of long, long practices

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Longwood at
University of
North Dakota,
6 p.m. Sunday
anymore. Our schemes are
in on both ends of the floor;
now it’s about tightening it
up and working on individual development.”
UND’s injur ie s have
resulted in the Sioux going
with five true freshmen or
redshirt freshmen in their
eight-man rotation.
There is some good news.
The Sioux will play six
straight home games the rest
of the month, a first for the

program making its way
through an NCAA Division I
transition. After Longwood,
an independent that already
has played 18 games, the
Sioux host Minot State
Thursday. UND then begins
Great West Conference play
by hosting South Dakota on
Jan. 15.
In addition to the six January home games, UND’s
schedule also softens. There
are no more Wisconsins or
Nebraskas awaiting the
Sioux, who are 5-9.
“Hopefully, we’ll get some
confidence and get a roll
going,” Jones said. “This is a
great opportunity for us to
get some wins under our

Goodman

Wilmer

belts, as long as we continue
to work hard and take care of
business as we have
throughout the season.”
True freshman Troy Huff,
a 6-4 guard from Milwaukee,
leads the Sioux in scoring,
averaging 10.3 points. He’s
become a regular, thanks to
the rash of injuries that have

Jones

Huff

plagued the program.
“It comes with the territory,” Huff said of UND’s sudden injury-induced youth
movement. “Division I basketball is aggressive. But
we’re definitely ready for the
conference. We want to get
on a roll with these next two
games coming up.”

NHL ROUNDUP

COLLEGE FOOTBALL ROUNDUP

DALLAS (AP) — Mats Zuccarello scored in
Blackhawks 3, Senators 2, SO
CHICAGO (AP) — University of North the second round of the shootout and Henrik
Dakota product Jonathan Toews and Patrick Lundqvist was perfect in the tiebreaker to lift
Kane scored on their team’s first two attempts New York over Dallas.
in the shootout, and Chicago recovered after Hurricanes 5, Panthers 3
losing a late lead to beat Ottawa on Friday
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Eric Staal broke a tie
night.
9:34 into third period and Jeff Skinner had two
goals and an assist as Carolina went on to beat
Red Wings 5, Flames 4, SO
CALGARY — Todd Bertuzzi scored the only Florida.
goal of the shootout and Jimmy Howard Maple Leafs 9, Thrashers 3
stopped all three attempts as Detroit beat CalATLANTA (AP) — Mikhail Grabovski, Nikogary.
lai Kulemin and Clarke MacArthur each
scored two goals in Toronto’s rout of Atlanta.
Rangers 3, Stars 2, SO

Cotton Bowl
LSU 41, Texas A&M 24

FCS CHAMPIONSHIP
Eastern Washington 20, Delaware 19

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — With
rumors swirling about LSU coach Les
Miles’ future, Jordan Jefferson threw three
touchdown passes to Terrence Toliver
and ran for a score to help the Tigers rally
for a victory over Texas A&M on Friday.
In the days leading up to the Bowl,
Miles said his focus was on his Tigers and
that he enjoyed where he was.
But LSU has now completed its fourth
season with at least 11 wins under Miles.

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Bo Levi Mitchell
led three straight late touchdown drives,
the finale coming with 2:47 left, leading
Eastern Washington a victory.
The Eagles trailed 19-0 and had gained
only 92 yards midway through the third
quarter. Facing the defense that gave up
the fewest points per game in the FCS,
their title hopes looked shot.
Eastern Washington beat North Dakota State in overtime in the quarterfinals.

NBA ROUNDUP

Associated Press

Minnesota’s Kosta Koufos goes against Marcus Camby.

Blazers 108, Wolves 98

Heat 101, Bucks 95, OT

102

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) —
Wesley Matthews scored 29
of his career-high 36 points
in the first half and Portland
rolled to a victory over Minnesota on Friday night.
Kevin Love had 30 points
and 19 rebounds for the
Timberwolves, who have
lost four of their past five
games. Michael Beasley
chipped in 17 points, but
hobbled through the second half after taking a nasty
fall on his right hip.
Martell Webster added
11 points for Minnesota,
while Luke Ridnour, Corey
Brewer and Anthony Tolliver each chipped in 10.

MORNING KICKOFF
Trivia answer
FROM 1D: A Southeastern Conference team has
won the Bowl Championship Ser ies national
crown four consecutive
years. Florida did it in 2006
and 2008, while LSU won it
in 2007 and Alabama took
the title last season.

Playback
10 YEARS AGO (2001):
The University of Mary men’s
and women’s basketball
teams swept Dickinson
State, with the men winning
83-57 and the women prevailing 78-53.
For the Marauders men,
George Mihov scored 21
points, James Gould 17 and
Doug Wick 14. For the Blue
Hawks men, Mark Kinnebrew tallied 21 points,
while Joel Ross chipped in
10.
For the U-Mary women,

TRANSACTIONS
FRIDAY
BASEBALL
Major League Baseball
MLB—Named Lou Koskovolis senior vice president of corporate sales
and marketing.
American League
TEXAS RANGERS—Designated
RHP Guillermo Moscoso for assignment,
National League
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS—Promoted
Michael Girsch to assistant general
manager and Sig Mejdal to director,
amateur draft analysis.

Century 81, TM 61
Eleven Patriots scored as
Century cruised to its seventh
victory without a loss.
“The best thing about
tonight was we did a nice job of
sharing the basketball,” Century coach Darin Mattern said.
“That’s a big emphasis for us
this year. If you have seven,
eight, nine kids who can score,
it makes you really difficult to
guard. A lot of kids contributed
to the scoring in this game.”
Seniors Justin Ledger and
Carson Wentz combined for 40

SPORTS DIGEST
Vikings’ Williams replaces
Lions’ Suh on NFC Pro Bowl team
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle Kevin
Williams has been added to the NFC Pro
Bowl team as an injury replacement for
Detroit Lions rookie Ndamukong Suh.
Suh is having shoulder surgery.
Williams will appear in the Pro Bowl for
the fifth straight season and the sixth time
in his eight-year career. He had only one
sack this season, finishing with 49 tackles,

thanks to one of the shortest clubs in his
bag.
Garrigus holed out a wedge for eagle
on the 16th hole, then followed that with
two big drives and to set up easy birdies
for a 10-under 63 and a one-shot lead
going into the weekend at the seasonopening event.
Jonathan Byrd shot 68 and was anothPGA: Tournament of Champions
er shot behind. There are plenty of players
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — Robert Gar- in the hunt, with Ernie Els (64), Steve
rigus, the biggest hitter on the PGA Tour, Stricker (67), Francesco Molinari (67), and
is leading the Tournament of Champions Jim Furyk (68) within four shots.
nine tackles for loss, seven passes defended and one forced fumble while starting
all 16 games. He will represent the Vikings
with running back Adrian Peterson at the
all-star game in Hawaii on Jan. 30.
Williams has 49 1/2 sacks in his career,
the most among defensive tackles in the
NFL since he entered the league in 2003.

them.”
Kotelnicki comes to UMary from Wisconsin-River
Falls, where he was the
assistant head coach in 2010
and the offensive coordinator from 2007-10.
Under Kotelnicki’s direction, the NCAA Division III
Falcons set 21 team offensive records and 12 players
earned individual honors.
“We are excited to have
Andy on board,” Schulz
said. “He brings a ton of
energy to our team. I look
forward to a marriage of his
ideas to our existing system.”
In Kotelnicki’s first year
as offensive coordinator at
Wisconsin-River Falls, the
Falcons offense increased
scoring from 13.1 points per
game to 30.5 points per
game. They improved passing yards per game from
89.4 to 234.3, enhanced the
team’s total offense from
262.2 yards per game to
403.3 yards per game, and
increased the team’s pass
efficiency from 82.5 to
116.6.
Kotelnicki joined the
Wisconsin-River Falls staff

Rotary Wrestling Tournament
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Today’s finalists include
two wrestlers seeking their
four th Rotar y championships and six unbeatens.
Kris Klapprodt (171) and
Jarrett Jensen (152) of
Stevens are both three-time
winners. There are only five
men ahead of them. The
Rotary has produced four
four-time champions and
one five-time winner in its
43-year history. Bismarck’s
Travis Lang is the only fivetime winner. The four-time
champs are Century’s Kasey
Gilliss and Troy Sabot, Dickinson’s Marc Mellmer and
Wahpeton’s Justin Solberg.
The unbeatens are Klapprodt, Wilson, Dawson
County’s Dillon Tennant
(103), Turtle Mountain’s T.J.
Lavallie (112), Napoleon’s
Jared Reis (145) and Sturgis’
Terrance Maier (189).
All but two of the 14 top
seeds have reached the
finals. Cole Mehring, No. 1 at
125, and Kirby Kain, the top
seed at 130, fell within minutes in Friday’s semifinals.

TOM STROMME/Tribune

St. Mary’s Brock Krumm, bottom, battles Shane Cooley of Custer County (Mont.) in
a 152-pound semifnal Friday in the Rotary Tournament at the Civic Center.
Half the second-seeded including defending cham- Mary’s at 152 and Joe Schuwrestlers were derailed, pions Brock Krumm of St. macher of Bismarck at 140.

Marauders offensive coordinator
Thomas is a former UND
coach and athletic director.
“There’s a relationship
between coach Schulz and
my brother,” Kotelnicki
said. “I came on campus
and met with Roger
Thomas. By surrounding
yourself with quality people,
you make yourself successful.”
Kotelnicki begins his new
job with four years experience as an offensive coordinator plus two years coaching at the NCAA Division I
FCS level.
“I thought he knew his
X’s and O’s very well,” Schulz
said. “I thought he was articulate. He has coached at the
Division III and the FCS
level, and that really prepares you for Division II. We
have 26 scholarships, so
nobody gets a full ride. He’s
used to recruiting at the
scholarship and non-scholarship levels.
“I thought we were on
the same page. You will see a
lot of the same because
that’s what we have recruited for. You will see a lot of
tweaks, but the average fan
probably won’t notice

cross-ice pass, and I
(one-timed) it.”
But it was the second one-timer that had
Sedevie raving, after
Rosenthal finished a
feed from Danny Ray.
“Anybody who saw
him one-time the puck
from the corner — that
to me, that’s an NHL
goal right there,” Sedevie said. “You see a goal
like that — it’s like,
‘Wow!’ ”
Rosenthal smiled at
that assessment.
“I don’t know about
that, but it was a good
goal,” he said. “... I was
just standing on my
side over there, and
then I saw Ray had the
puck. I started screaming, ‘Danny Ray! Danny
Ray! Pass the puck!’
And then I just shot,
(one-time).”
Just 16 seconds later
the Bobcats doubled
their lead. Leisner
made the initial stop
on Charlie Mosey, but
was down and out as
Sam Dougherty
pounced on the
rebound and slid it past
the helpless goalie to
make it 3-1.
Sedevie liked the
Bobcats approach after
falling behind.
“We kept to what
was working, we kept
trying to get pucks to
the net, and good
things happened,” he
said. “We don’t want to
change anything. We
don’t want to play desperate. We want to stick
to our systems and do
what works.”
The Bobcats had
won five straight before
a long Christmas break

in 2006 as the
special teams
coordinator
and defensive backs
coach.
Kotelnicki
said he does
share some of
t h e s a m e Schulz
philosophies
as Fisk in the
spread offense.
“The word spread is used
so much nowadays,” Kotelnicki said. “There are a lot of
similarities to what they’ve
done and what I’ve done.
My decision will be personnel-based — find your best
players, get them on the
field and get them the ball.”
Kotelnicki has already
met with the U-Mary players.
“They’re excited to get
going,” he said. “There was a
lot of momentum and
excitement for how the season ended for them. I
watched film and saw how
they developed throughout
the year. They’re excited,
and I’m excited to build on
that.”
U-Mary finished the sea-

Continued from 1D
son at 4-6 in Northern Sun
play and 4-7 overall. At one
time, the Marauders were
just 1-7, but closed the season with three straight wins
including an upset over
Winona State on the road.
Prior to joining the Wisconsin-River Falls staff,
Kotelnicki served as an
assistant coach at Western
Illinois for two years. He was
the tight ends and assistant
special teams coach in 2005
and an assistant line coach
in 2004.
During his years with the
L e a t h e r n e c k s, h e a l s o
worked as an assistant
strength and conditioning
coach. He received a master’s degree in kinesiology
from Western Illinois in
2006.
Kotelnicki is a 2004 graduate of Wisconsin-River
Falls with a bachelor’s
degree in health and human
performance. He was the
starting center for the Falcons from 2001-03 and a
team captain as a senior.
He began his collegiate
coaching career at his alma
mater as a student assistant
offensive line coach in 2003.

Williston State
“Softball is such a new
sport in Williston,” Berg said.
“It will be an introductory
sport to our campus and
community. It’s not full bore
here like it is in some communities. Once we explain
the conference could have
six or seven teams that offer
softball, it will be easy for
people to see that’s why we
are adding it. I don’t envision
any problems with it.”
The hockey team would
potentially play at the AgriSports Complex or the Raymond Family Center.
Berg said adding hockey
wouldn’t be as big of an
expense as what some people would think.
Berg said the Tetons’
hockey schedule would be
similar to what Dakota-Bottineau plays, matching up
with Minot State, North
Dakota State JV and senior
teams from Canada.
“Our schedule would
look almost identical to Bottineau’s,” Berg said. “We are
looking forward to modeling
a program after something
similar to what Dakota College has on their campus.”
Berg believes that college

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hockey will be received well
in the community of Williston.
“We think hockey is a
popular sport in Williston,”
Berg said. “Hockey is well
supported and draws great
interest from fans. The town
wants to see more kids coming to school on our campus.”
Berg said adding hockey
was a better fit than football
for the school.
“For us, football seemed
like such a large commitment in terms of number of
players and dollars for
equipment it takes to equip
a football team,” Berg said.
“With football, we knew we
would have to construct a
practice facility of some type
on our campus.”
Berg said the next step is
to raise the funds for both
sports.
“The Williston community has been supportive of
our athletic programs and
all programs in town,” Berg
said. “We will talk to people
who would like to see a college hockey team in Williston and ask them for help in
funding a program.”

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Packers ready to chase Vick
By CHRIS JENKINS
AP Sports Writer
G R E E N B AY, Wi s. —
Green Bay Packers coaches
didn’t take any unorthodox
measures to simulate the
speed and elusiveness of
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick this week.
Packers defensive coordinator Dom Capers said
backup quarterback Matt
Flynn played Vick’s role in
practice as the team prepared for Sunday’s playoff
game. While Flynn doesn’t
have Vick’s athleticism —
who does? — Capers
thought it was more important for his defense to face
somebody who can throw.
“It’s hard to simulate
(Vick),” Capers said. “In the
past, there’s times when you
might take a receiver or
something and put him back
there, but they aren’t going to
throw the ball the way you
want it thrown.”
If the Packers were to
have a special guest star running the scout team in an
attempt to mimic what
they’ll see from Vick, linebacker Desmond Bishop
said he would nominate
wide receiver Greg Jennings.
Jennings laughed off the
suggestion.
“There’s no simulating
Michael Vick,” Jennings said.
The way the Packers’
defense is playing — they
were No. 2 in scoring defense
this season — the Packers

UP NEXT
WHO: Green Bay vs. Philadelphia
WHAT: NFC wild card playoffs
WHEN: 3:30 p.m., Sunday
WHERE: Lincoln Financial Field,
Philadelphia
ON: FOX, KFYR
think they can stop just
about anybody. But they
have a healthy respect for
Vick’s ability and know
they’re in for a long day Sunday, win or lose.
Packers defensive lineman Ryan Pickett isn’t exactly relishing the challenge of
chasing Vick around.
“No. I absolutely hate it,”
Pickett said. “It is not fun
chasing that guy around. But
you’ve just got to keep heat
on him.”
This will be the second
time the Packers have faced
Vick this season. This time,
they insist they’ll be ready.
When the Packers went to
Philadelphia in Week 1,
Kevin Kolb was the Eagles’
starter and the Packers prepared for a more traditional
dropback passer. But a big
hit from Clay Matthews took
a toll on Kolb, Vick replaced
him — and nearly led the
Eagles to a comeback victory
with 175 yards passing and
103 yards rushing.
“It’s a big difference,”

Pickett said. “We didn’t
expect him to play much at
all, so our gameplan wasn’t
suited for Vick. He came in,
and we just basically played
the plan that we had for Kolb,
but you can’t play him like
you play Kolb. It’ll be a big
difference.”
Vick expects the Packers
to be ready.
“Obviously, when I came
in the game we was already
down 13 points or whatever
the deficit was,” Vick said.
“They just sat back and
played their scheme. Obviously now I know they’ll
have some things cooked up
and they’ll do some differently things. But it’s football.
We all have to adjust and
make plays and be pros.”
And with the Packers now
planning for Vick, cornerback Charles Woodson said
he hopes Capers will stay
aggressive with the Packers’
pass rush.
“We know what we’re
going up against,” Woodson
s a i d . “ We k n ow ( h ow )
dynamic that Vick is. He’s a
very big part of what they do,
of what they’re doing right
now. He makes a lot of plays
with his feet, but we’ve got to
make sure we stay aggressive
and make him run if he has
to and make sure that we do
our job in the back end. But
aggressive, that’s the way we
like to play.”
Blitzing Vick seemed to
work well for the Minnesota
Vikings in a surprising win

Colts take
business
approach

over the Eagles in the second-to-last game of the regular season, although Vick
said a leg injury limited his
ability to scramble then.
“I hurt my leg on the first
play of the game and it hurt
me,” Vick said. “I couldn’t do
the things I wanted to do. I
couldn’t push up in the
pocket. But I won’t use that
as an excuse.”

Vick got a week off to rest
in the Eagles’ regular season
finale, and Bishop knows the
Packers will have to be ready.
“We’ve got to do a good
job of not going to sleep on
him, because a lot of the
things he does, he’ll kind of
lull you to sleep and he’ll take
off,” Bishop said. “If you’re
not at full speed, he’s
arguably one of the fastest

guys in the NFL. You’ve got to
know where he’s at on the
field and that’s pretty much
it.”
But with the way the
Packers’ defense is playing,
Pickett is confident.
“We like our matchup
with anybody on defense,
because we’re playing good
ball,” Pickett said. “It’s tough
to score on us.”

Saints open defense of crown
By TIM BOOTH
AP Sports Writer

By MICHAEL MAROT
AP Sports Writer
INDIANAPOLIS — Peyton Manning has kept it all
business this week.
He studied tapes, looked
for flaws and worked overtime to figure out how he
beat the Jets defense. No
change there, so don’t take it
personally, Rex.
“It takes you absolutely
forever to watch one game
with their defense because
they have so many different
players and formations. It’s a
full-time cram session,”
Manning said. “It just takes
you time if you are going to
truly study.”
Few prepare more thoroughly than Manning, and
even fewer can match the
feats of the only four-time
MVP league in history. This
week’s possible milestones
include passing Joe Montana for No. 2 on the postseason completions list and
moving into the top five in
playoff TD passes.
So if Ryan thought he
could make Manning fret by
calling this week’s matchup
“personal,” well, think again.
As Ryan continued chirping, Manning kept working.
“I really don’t have any
reaction to it,” Manning
said. “I know how hard it is
to prepare for this style of
defense.”
Playing mind games with
Manning is dangerous,
something nobody understands better than Ryan.

Indianapolis’ Peyton Manning and the Colts have had
little trouble with teams coached by Rex Ryan.

He’s 1-5 against Manning
as the Jets coach and Ravens
defensive coordinator, with
the win coming in a game
Manning didn’t even finish.
The Colts yanked their
starters early in Week 16 last
season, throwing away their
chance at a perfect season
and helping the Jets position
themselves to charge into
the playoffs.
Four weeks later, the
teams met again in the AFC
championship game and
Manning led the Colts to a
come-from-behind victory.
So given what Ryan has
endured in the past, anything is worth a shot.
“I remember in Baltimore, we had to get a stop to
get the ball back and make it
a game, and it was third
down and it was just impossible to make the pass he
makes to Dallas Clark,” Ryan
UP NEXT
recalled of another playoff
WHO: N.Y. Jets vs. Indianapolis loss to Manning’s Colts. “He
WHAT: AFC wild card playoffs
still made the throw and
WHEN: 7 p.m., today
they went down and kicked
WHERE: Lucal Oil Field,
a field goal, and the game
Indianapolis
ON: NBC, KFYR was essentially over.”

Over the years, Ryan has
seen that scenario play out
time and again.
From implausible throws
to perfect game management to timely calls, Manning seems to have written
the book on beating Ryan.
Changing that will likely
take a ball-control offense, a
l o c k d ow n d e f e n s e, n o
turnovers and a little good
luck. New York certainly has
the pieces to do it.
Shonn Greene and
L a D a i n i a n To m l i n s o n
helped the Jets rank fourth
in the NFL in rushing, and
the Jets are coming off last
week’s season-high 276yard showing at Buffalo.
Defensively, the Jets are
No. 3 overall and No. 6
against the pass and they’re
hoping to get a payoff after
bringing in cornerback
Antonio Cromartie to team
with All-Pro Darrelle Revis.
Ryan acknowledged that the
move for Cromartie was
designed specifically to stop
two teams — the Colts and
the Patriots.

SEATTLE — A year ago,
the New Orleans Saints rode
the raucous enthusiasm of
the Superdome through the
NFC playoffs to the first
Super Bowl title in franchise
history.
Hope they waved goodbye to the Superdome on
their way out of town earlier
this week. There’s a good
chance if these Saints are
going to get all the way back
to the league’s title game,
they’ll be asked to do it on
the road.
The first stop on their
postseason road trip begins
today against the Seahawks
in the first round of the NFC
playoffs.
It doesn’t quite seem right
the defending champs and
an 11-win team this season
would be asked to travel
2,000 miles on a short week
to face the first division
champs in league history
with a losing record — and a
team the Saints beat 34-19 in
Week 11.
“We all have a formula for
getting in. We all know ahead
of time. No one was upset
about it or complaining
about it before the start of
the season,” Saints coach
Sean Payton said. “I think
that value of winning your
division means something.
Just as a season ago when
the postseason began, the
teams that are in now really
are 0-0. That’s just the truth.
I think our players understand that more than anything.”
But the task in front of the
Saints as the No. 5 seed in the
NFC became seemingly
more difficult as the week

progressed.
There’s the second consecutive short week having
played at Atlanta on Dec. 27,
losing at home to Tampa Bay
last Sunday and taking off
Thursday after practice to
make the five-hour flight to
Seattle. There’s the Pacific
Northwest weather, where
rain and even a chance of
some light snow are being
forecast for today.
There’s the Saints history,
which tells the story of a
franchise that has never
won, let alone played well,
away from the Superdome in
the playoffs. New Orleans
lost 16-6 at Chicago in 1991;
34-16 at Minnesota in 2001;
and 39-14 at Chicago in the
NFC championship game
four years ago.
Then there’s the injuries.
Already this week, the Saints
placed their top two running
backs — Chris Ivory and
Pierre Thomas — on injured
reserve. Only Reggie Bush

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and Finding of No Significant Impact
(FONSI) on January 4, 2011 approving the
Newfield Sand Creek State 1-16H Special
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alternative approves an application from
Newfield Production Company (Newfield)
requesting use of National Forest System
land for the purpose of constructing a road
to an oil and gas well on North Dakota
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well pad on National Forest System land,
and burying utility lines for the well along
the newly constructed access road and
other existing roads.
Copies of the Environmental Assessment
and Decision Notice/FONSI are available at
the McKenzie Ranger District Office, 1901
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The 30 day comment period for this project
ended on December 16, 2010. Since no
comments were received during the
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and Julius Jones remain as
the Saints healthy running
backs from the regular season.
The injur y concer ns
stretch beyond the backs.
Marques Colston, who had
eight catches for 113 yards
and two touchdowns in the
first meeting against Seattle,
is listed as probable, but
underwent knee surgery less
than two weeks ago. Safety
Malcolm Jenkins is out, thinning a secondary that
allowed 366 yards passing to
Seattle earlier this year. Starting outside linebacker
Danny Clark, tight end
Jimmy Graham and defensive tackle Anthony Hargrove are also out.
What first looked like a
glorified scrimmage for the
Saints to get ready for the
next round of the playoffs
has turned, leaving just the
slightest bit of possibility to
the thought: “Can Seattle
actually pull the upset?”

8.4 million jobs that we lost
during the crisis.”
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
and Bank of America Corp.
were two of the biggest losers among the 30 stocks that
make up the Dow. Banks fell
as investors worried that the
foreclosure ruling in Massachusetts could set a precedent for other cases against
lenders.
The Dow Jones industrial
average fell 22.55 points, or
0.2 percent, to close

NONFERROUS METALS

at 11,674.76.
Even after falling for two
days in a row, the Dow still
gained 97.25 points for the
week. That’s the sixth
straight week of gains for the
index.
The Standard & Poor’s 500
index fell 2.35, or 0.2 percent,
to 1,271.50. The Nasdaq
composite fell 6.72, or
0.3 percent, to 2,703.17. For
the week, the S&P 500 rose
1.1 percent, the Nasdaq
1.9 percent.

JPMorgan leads stocks lower
NEW YORK (AP) — A disappointing jobs report
dragged stocks lower Friday.
Banks took a hit after a
Massachusetts court upheld
a ruling in a foreclosure case
against U.S. Bancorp and
Wells Fargo & Co. that could
lead to more trouble for
lenders.
The Labor Department
said employers added
103,000 jobs in December,
less than analysts expected.
Job growth has remained
sluggish in the U.S. since the
recession ended in June
2009.
A separate survey found
that the unemployment rate
fell to 9.4 percent last month.
That’s a decrease from
9.8 percent in November and
the lowest rate in 19 months.
But the drop came partly
because many people gave
up looking for work.
“On balance, this was a
pretty disappointing report,”
said Hugh Johnson, chairman and chief investment
officer of Johnson Advisors.
It “suggests we have a long
way to go to recover the

Slow growth in jobs
underscores challenges
By CHRISTOPHER S.
RUGABER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON — The
U.S. economy is steadily
adding jobs, but still just
barely enough to keep up
with the growth of the work
force. The weakness underscores the nation’s struggle
to get back to something
resembling normal employment.
The economy added
103,000 jobs in December, a
figure that fell short of what
most economists were hoping for. The unemployment
rate did come down, to
9.4 percent from 9.8, but that
was partly because people
gave up looking for work.
“The labor market ended
last year with a bit of a thud,”
Ryan Sweet, an economist at
Moody’s Analytics, said after
t h e L a b o r De p a r t m e n t
released its monthly jobs
report Friday. He said the
drop in unemployment wasn’t likely to be sustained.
O v e r t h e p a s t t h re e
months, the economy has
added an average of 128,000
jobs a month. That’s just
enough to keep up with population growth. Nearly twice
as many are generally needed to significantly reduce the
unemployment rate.
All told, employers added
1.1 million jobs in 2010, or
about 94,000 a month. The
nation still has 7.2 million
fewer jobs today than it did
in December 2007, when the
recession began.
Some economists predict
that the nation will create
twice as many jobs this year
as it did last year. They note
that people who still have
jobs are not as worried about
losing them as they might
have been a year ago, and
that people are spending
more. A rebound in retail
sales probably means businesses will hire more people.
Economists also expect
that a tax cut that takes effect
this month — a reduction in
the amount taken out of
workers’ paychecks to pay
for Social Security — will also
lead Americans to spend
more this year.
“The conditions are in

place to get pretty good job
growth this year,” said John
Canally, an economist at LPL
Financial. “The payroll tax
cut is in place, exports are
booming, and banks are
lending again.”
But even if hiring picks
up, the damage from the
recession, which has been
over for a year and a half, will
take years to undo.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a
Senate panel Friday it could
take five more years for the
unemployment rate to
return to a more normal
level of 6 percent. Most
economists think unemployment will still be near
9 percent at the end of 2011.
“This was a brutal recession we went through,” said
President Barack Obama,
who introduced Washington
insider and veteran adviser
Gene Sperling as director of
the National Economic
Council.

The president said the
jobs report showed that the
economy is trending in the
right direction, but acknowledged that hiring must
accelerate.
“We’ve got a big hole that
we’re digging ourselves out
of,” he said.
That’s why the economy
needs stronger job growth
than after milder recessions.
Hiring has picked up
faster this time than after the
2001 recession. In the year
and a half since this recession ended, the economy
has added a total of 72,000
jobs. In the same period after
the 2001 recession, the
nation lost jobs — more than
a million.
And job growth would be
even stronger if not for the
depressed housing industry
and financially ailing state
and local governments. Construction firms and local
governments shed a total of
36,000 jobs in December.

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